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SPIRITUALISM 

of 

NATURE 

By H. L. CHAPMAN 

Marcellas, Michigan 

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COPYRIGHT 1922 

Bij Rev. H. L. Chapman 

The Spiritualism of Nature, Harmon- 
izing the Continuity of Life, With 
Eternal Unchangeable Law, As 
the Source of Things. 

VERSUS 

A Personal God and Creation 

Being a Series of Lectures Delivered 
Written as Dictated < 




H. L. CHAPMAN 

The following is the first ever given in our 
developing circle. It seems to be a kind of prophecy 
of my work, signifying the long but slow progress 
up to a final good work. 
A thimble and a parasol come here to me, 
And what it means, in the future we'll see, 
A brick and a cob, that's all very good, 
And among the rest comes an armful of wood, 
And here is a broom, and there is a pail, 
And away over yonder, hangs a mop on a nail. 



AUG 14 1922 
©GU677872 




MRS. TRYPHENA IVESON CHAPMAN 

Passed to Spirit Life, March 27, 1916 
And so it is the stars that shine the brightest 
Are so often the ones that soonest pass from sight, 
But in the passing, still they shine, 
And, as they roll their endless course along 
They make their pathway bright, and theirs the 

song, of peace and quiet. 
As through the boundless realms of space they soar, 
Obey eternal law, and know no fear, 
E'en so, the soul goes outward from its form of clay, 
Into the vast unknown, there fully to obey 
The unknown laws, by the change made known, 
And thus obeying, ever journey on towards the 

goal 
Where God is love, and love, eternal soul 



FOREWORD 

The writer of this book is an old friend of ours 
whom we have known many years. He is one of 
Michigan's Spiritual Philosophers, Naturalists and 
Poets. Ee has for many years brought comfort to 
the sorrowing, hope to the erring, light to those in 
spiritual darkness, and given to the world the all 
important truths of the New Revelation, Modern 
Spiritualism. He has published in this book a 
number of his many lectures and poems which he 
has given under the inspiration of his spirit guides 
and teachers, often taking the subjects the audience 
chooses to name, and at once, without hesitation, he 
proceeds to improvise verses full of good philosophy, 
science, wisdom and the religion of Spiritualism. 

In these improvisations this remarkable medium 
demonstrates beyond a question, the truth of spirit 
influence or control, and their ability to inspire and 
direct the thought of the medium,' and to teach the 
great truths revealed in Spiritualism through spirit 
communion. 

To me this fact is well known, because I am a 
medium for the same phases of manifestation as our 
good brother Chapman, and through personal 
experience I KNOW that spirits control, inspire and 
speak their thought through mediums. Knowing 
this I feel worthy and well qualified, duly and truly 
prepared to make the statements mentioned above. 

Mr. Chapman's work for Spiritualism has always 
been of the best, and I am certain, though I have 
read but a part of this New Book, that it is a very 
valuable addition to the literature of Modern 



Spiritualism and will be an important and valuable 
aid to all its readers who are seeking to know the 
truth and are willing to accept the teachings of the 
lowly Nazarene who said "The truth shall make 
you free." 

Spiritualists are Free Thinkers. They do not all 
think alike, as those who are tethered to orthodox 
creeds are supposed to. Every Spiritualist is per- 
mitted by every other Spiritualist to think as he 
pleases; to believe as his reason directs, and to give 
expression freely, on all proper occasions to his 
honest belief. Spiritualists agree to disagree on 
points of difference of opinion, and by contrasting 
those opinions they learn and are able to arrive at 
the truth. 

Therefore let me say the author of this work is 
an honest and capable man and is desirous of bless- 
ing his fellow men as he has been blessed by the 
spiritual truths he has received and teaches, and 
this is why he has published this book. May 
heaven bless him in his effort to bless others. 

Of course, I do not suppose that anyone will hold 
me responsible for every sentiment expressed in 
this book as we do not see everything through the 
same lenses, yet I can say that the doctrines taught 
in it in essence are true, and I gladly recommend 
the book to the seeker after truth. 

The more I learn of the new book, the better I like it. 
REV. E. W. SPRAGUE 



Dedicated to 

My Dearly Beloved Wife 
The Spirit World, 

My Friends and Kindred, 
All Whose Hearts Beat in Sympathy 
With the Throbbing Hearts of 
Humanity 



PREFACE bp the Author 

In publishing this book, I do so with the highest 
respect for the belief of each and every individual, 
whether agreeing with, or differing from my 
views, for I long have considered it a demonstrat- 
ed fact, that we each believe according to the evi- 
dence brought to bear, whether that evidence be 
much or little. 

While I may be wrong in my conclusions, yet I 
have failed to find any evidence whatever, that 
there is, or ever has been, a personal, or indi- 
vidual God, who with infinite knowledge and 
power has created and still controls all things. 

If there are any that can produce evidence that 
such a God does, or ever has existed, I hope and 
trust they will bring it forward at once, for the 
world to-day is asking for light on this subject; 
we do not want fiction or myth, we want practical 
demonstration, or logical deductions. 

In presenting the thoughts herein contained. I 
do so hoping that either directly, or indirectly 
through kindly criticism, to bring broader and 
higher thoughts to many, fully realizing that 
whosoever may be wrong, cannot be benefitted by 
adhering to wrong, for truth alone can make us 
free. 

If we look at the teachings of the Bible from 
the standpoint of science and reason, right and 
wrong, we find the teachings of a creation, the 
fall of man, eternal damnation, and the redemp- 
tion from sin through a belief in a personal God, a 
three in one God, the Son being as old as the 
Father, and the all wise and all powerful creator 
of all things, including the devil if there was one, 



2 PREFACE 

and sin of all kinds, and also being the designer 
of the plan of redemption, through belief in this 
God, and these teachings, and that belief, repent- 
ance and baptism at the eleventh hour, will free 
us from all sins and wrong doing, and pass us, 
"Scott free," into a great heaven, there to sing 
and play on a harp for a thousand years, or 
through the endless ages of time. 

Then we shall find that none of the above 
named teachings, harmonize with natural law, 
the Infinite, Eternal, Unchangeable, Omnipresent 
principles, inherent in nature, which principles 
must have been at least a part of the creation, if 
there ever was a creation, which creation by a 
personal God, I shall endeavor to show, could 
never have been, but under the eternal, unchange- 
able laws of nature have always existed in some 
form. 

It is with a thought of giving a broader view 
and a better light, that will help to bring the 
world to a better and happier condition, and free 
the people from idol worship, and its dogmas 
that have held the world in darkness through the 
long ages past; free them from those teachings 
that have caused more war, misery, suffering, and 
more evil doing and crime of all kinds, than any 
other teaching the world has ever known, which 
wrong doing is based on the teaching, that God 
will forgive them, make them free and happy, if 
at the last hour they believe repent and are bap- 
tized. 

St. Luke XV. and 7th. "Joy shall be in heaven 
over one sinner that repenteth, more than over 
ninety and nine just persons" a teaching that says 
to the wrong doer, repent and be free. 

Then even the Kaizer, can escape punishment 
(having ample time to repent) although by his 
orders, thousands upon thousands of good, honest 
upright, moral men and women, and even little 
children, have been slain unrepentant, who ac- 



PREFACE 3 

cording to these teachings have been, or will be, 
plunged into an eternal life of misery and tor- 
ment, while the Kaiser, who caused it, repents 
and goes into a condition of eternal bliss. 

Are such teachings just and right? 

Is it reasonable to suppose an infinite and all 
wise God, with perfect foreknowledge of all 
things, and who is all powerful to create, govern 
and control, could do such a thing? 

Consider for a moment, think of such a God 
without beginning or ending, with foreknowledge 
of all that has been, now is, or is to be just think 
of his asking and demanding the little finite, short 
lived, ignorant man, whom he has created with- 
out giving him the knowledge of good or evil, to 
worship him, or be eternally damned and tor- 
mented. 

Think of that kind of a God creating man and 
placing before him all kinds of temptation and 
also creating a , devil to lead him on, yes, ask 
yourself, could man, a finite being commit so 
great a wrong towards humanity, as this great 
and infinite God has committed if these teachings 
are true, which we think they cannot be, for we 
cannot conceive of or imagine an infinite being 
with all power, knowledge and wisdom, giving 
the world such a lot of teachings, that do not 
harmonize with the great unchangeable laws of 
nature, which he must have created, if he has 
created all things as claimed? 

It is not the belief in the teachings of a priest- 
made book of the dark and distant ignorant past, 
that shall give you eternal life and happiness, for 
Life, Spirit, Consciousness and Intelligence &re 
eternal principles in nature. 

We deem it a fact that joy and happiness here and hereafter, 
will be to each one just what he makes it. 

He cannot cast his load of sin on the shoulders of another, 
but each must bear his own burden. 



4 PREFACE 

To know the truth and live it. 

To know and live in harmony with the Infinite, 
Eternal, Unchangeable, Omnipresent principles in- 
herent in nature, which we call natural law, will 
bring us freedom and happiness here and here- 
after. 

Bearing in mind that Life, Spirit, Intelligence, 
Consciousness, are eternal principles that can 
never die, we are publishing this book to help, if 
possible, to free the minds of men from the teach- 
ings of the long ago ignorant past and give a 
broader and better light and help to lead the 
world along the lines of truth and justice, peace 
and harmony, friendship and brotherly love, in 
harmony with the eternal unchangeable laws of 
nature, which rule over and govern all things. 

This Book is not written as a story, but it is in- 
tended to show that the Bible story of creation, 
the fall of man, redemption from sin by and 
through Vicarious Atonement, to a future of 
eternal bliss, or of eternal torment, is simply a 
great fiction, which is not in harmony with the 
eternal, unchangeable laws of nature, which laws 
will be brought to bear in handling the different 
subjects discussed. 

It is also intended to show a substantial basis 
for the continuity of life, and Spirit communion. 

By some it might be considered that we repeat 
certain lines of thought in various places, however 
it is a well known fact that in scientific work along 
any line of natural phenomena, which man has 
been able to investigate and prove, there has in 
every instance been a cause, a principle, a law, 
underlying or sustaining every' phenomenon, and 
wherever said phenomenon occurs, there will be 
found the same prime principle or law underlying 
or governing it. 

Therefore, in establishing our statement that 
the prime principles of nature, natural law, are 
co-eternal with time and space and govern all 



PREFACE 5 

things, it is found that in handling the various 
subjects the same unchangeable principles are 
brought to bear, being as they are the foundation 
of all the phenomena of nature, even as Addition, 
Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, are the 
prime principles underlying all mathematical 
problems, therefore, like the principles of math- 
ematics, when ever such proplems are being con- 
sidered, these principles are brought to bear. 

Why am I so radical? Because TRUTH is always 
radical as compared with any untruth. Not long 
ago I purchased a book entitled, "How to prepare 
manuscripts," after a careful reading I found 
that at least 90 per cent of it was what any one 
who writes for the press would already know, the 
main features being to have it neatly typewritten, 
the words properly spelled, and the sentences 
properly constructed and punctuated. 

In the other ten per cent it said, "You must 
know what your readers want, what they like, so 
when they have read they will say that is just 
exactly my own opinion." 

To be pleased may be and probably is, all that 
some people care for. 

For books or lectures, certainly the people at 
large will give more solid money, or go farther to 
hear some one tell them something that is just 
what they themselves believe, something strictly 
in harmony with their own views, than they would 
to read or hear any other thing that could be 
written or said, that is, it pleases them to know 
that some speaker or writer believes just what 
they believe. But I ask, how much benefit do you 
really get from such a book or lecture, yes, how 
much? 

This is the process of old fogyism, desiring to 
hear your own opinions expressed, and then laud- 
ing the book or speaker that has told nothing new, 
nothing that you did not already believe; that 
principle has held the world back during all the 



6 PREFACE 

years past, both politically and religiously, or 
Spiritually. 

If my lecture, or my book, does not present 
some thoughts that are new to you, something to 
stir up your thinking capacity or something to rile 
your temper and make you think, then I shall feel 
that it has done but little good. 

If it is, as in so many cases, a lot of talk and 
really nothing said, nothing backed up by any proof 
or evidence, then I should be compelled to rely on 
something to please, something in harmony with 
your line of thought, but in my work I always try 
to present some thought, that is backed up by 
history or science, or sustained by the eternal 
unchangeable laws of nature and natural phenom- 
ena. 

If there is not something in my work to wake up 
the dormant mentality and make you think, then 
I shall hope to meet you on the level, with a view 
to learning something, something that I have 
missed and you have gained. 

Now I am not infallible, but like other mortals, 
I may be mistaken. So if my line of thought, as 
presented herein, should conflict with your relig- 
ious views, do not at once condemn it as false teach- 
ing, but investigate and know for yourself, whether 
the thoughts are in harmony with the eternal laws 
of nature, or sustained by historical or scientific 
demonstrated facts, for I have endeavored to 
prove my statements by said facts, or by giving a 
better explanation of the eternal, unchangeable 
laws of nature, pertaining to the different sub- 
jects discussed. 

If I am wrong, I most sincerely hope that facts 
or logical reasoning, based on these principles of 
natural law, may be brought to my attention, for 
it is the real truth, that both you and I want, for we 
know if we are wrong, we cannot be benefitted 
by adhering to wrong, for only the truth can make 
us free. 



PREFACE 7 

Science depends on Analysis, or the separation 
and sifting out as it were, the different features or 
facts of any question or substance as by analysis 
the assayist separates the crude rough ore into its 
various parts, showing the exact amount, kind and 
quality of each metal it contains. 

While chemical Synthesis is the putting together 
of known substances to form a compound that 
cannot be distinguished from a natural compound. 

And in this book I have tried first to analize 
some of the teachings of the past, that is, to 
separate and show them as natural law presents 
them, and second, by the known laws of nature 
construct a substantial foundation for the teaching 
of the continuity of life and spirit communion, 
based purely on natural law. To sustain the phe- 
nomena that I have witnessed, therefore in reading 
this book do not acept my word as proof, for I may 
be mistaken, I am not infallible, so please do not 
condemn me as being only a radical, for I am 
earnestly and candidly seeking the truth, and I 
fully believe I have only pointed out facts accord- 
ing to the laws of nature, which cannot lie, they 
are unchangeable, therefore if you doubt, study 
the laws of nature and know for your self. 

The poems in this book speak of the rhythmic 
harmony of a soul freed from the bondage of the 
false, and receiving a little gleam of the true 
light that is to enlighten the world, a taste as it 
were, of the richness of the joy that comes from 
even a partial knowledge and understanding of the 
eternal principles that rule over and govern all 
things, which principles are the very foundation of 
all science and philosophy, and always lead to- 
ward progress, health and happiness, in just 
proportion as they are understood and lived up to. 



HEW TO THE LINE 

Hew to the line, no matter where the chips may- 
fall, 

The truth, will never lead a man astray, 
Then seek the truth forever, one and all, 

Giving not to error, the right of way. 

If solid fact, shall prove that we are wrong, 
Then by that fact, lets change our course to 
right, 

And not forever sing the doleful song 

Of ignorance, error, the worlds foul blight. 

Awake, Oh Soul, and be forever free, 
But truth alone, can ever make you so. 

Then seek through Natures endless laws, the light, 
The facts, the truth, and you shall surely know. 

Hew to the line, with earnest careful thought, 
With infinite eternal law, thy guide, 

The Chips will fall where error now is taught, 
And much of wrong will surely cast aside. 




JESUS THE NAZARINE 

Before reading the body of this book, I would 
wish to call the reader's attention to some points 
in the New Testament regarding Jesus. 

I believe it has long been considered that the 
gospels according to Sts. Matthew, Mark and Luke, 
contain the most complete record of Jesus and his 
work. 

It seems to be generally taught by the various 
Christian religions, that Jesus was more than a 
man, that he was a God, that God the Son, God 
the Father, and God the Holy Ghost were, and 
are, all one and the same. 

In regard to this, I know of no better evidence 
to establish what he was, than what these gospels 
state that he himself said, so I shall herewith 
quote a few of his statements, and refer you to a 
few others, all of which, I would advise you to 
look up and read carefully, that you may better 
understand what he claimed in this respect. 

If these gospels are infallible, as considered by 
the Christian Churches, I think this testimony 
from his own words will be sufficient evidence to 
convince you that Jesus was a man, and not a 
God, and that he made no further claim of God- 
ship. 

However, the Apostles and teachers made the 
claim of Godship for him, on account of the 
wonderful work he did, of which work, I have not 
the least doubt, that at least much that is record- 
ed as his work is true, for that class of work has 
occurred in practically all ages and countries, 
according to authentic history, and occurs in all 
civilized countries today, except where law 
forbids it. 

I would refer first to the Gospel according to St. 
Matthew, XVII — and 9th: "And as they came 
down from the Mountain Jesus charged them say- 
ing. Tell the vision to no man until the Son of Man 



io JESUS THE NAZARINE 

be risen from the dead" Same chapter, 22nd verse, 
"The son of man shall be betrayed into the hands 
of men." Also, VIII-20th, XVI, 13-16, 20, "Whom 
say they that I the Son of man am," Peter said, 
"Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God." 
"Then charged he his disciples that they should 
tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ," also St. 
Mark XIV-21-41, St. Luke IX-20-21. "He said unto 
them, 'But whom say ye that I am?' Peter 
answering said, 'The Christ of God' "And he 
straightly charged them and commanded them to 
tell no man that thing." also same chapter, 22-44- 
56 and 58 verses. 

If these gospels are infallible, as claimed by the 
churches, then we think these statements of Jesus 
himself are sufficient evidence to prove that he 
was a man, and only a man. 

Further, if it is a fact that he arose from the 
dead on the third day, as recorded, and if it is also 
a fact that he was a God, as claimed, then the 
fact that he arose from the dead would be no evi- 
dence that common men should arise from the 
dead. But if he was a man, and then arose from 
the dead, then his arising would be as a type of 
what men might expect in their own case. 

As Spiritualists, we believe he was just what he 
claimed to be-a man-and we believe he arose from 
the dead as a spirit, and that men to day, arise 
from the dead as spirits, which was the same 
manner in which Jesus arose, according to the 
evidence given by Sts. Matthew and Mark, see 
Matthew XXVIII, 9-10, St. Mark XVI,9-18 in the 
17th verse he said, "And these signs shall follow 
them that believe." Now what church believes 
to such an extent that those signs follow them? 
Are they not the Spiritualists? 

Now I accept the teachings of Jesus, not as a 
God, but taking him to be a man, as per his own 
words according to the Gospels above cited I con- 
sider him as being a great medium, a good man, 



JESUS TH E NAZARINE 1 1 

probably not better than Confucius, who was born 
551 years before Jesus, and taught practically all 
the moral teachings that Jesus taught, and it is 
quite probable that Jesus copied from Confucius, 
and studied his work much during the time that is 
not accounted for in the New Testament, that is for 
about 22 years between the time when he was 12, 
and 34 years of age, No one knows exactly, as 
they did not begin reckoning time according to the 
present Christian era, until about the sixth cen- 
tury after his supposed birth date, and it was 
supposed that he taught for about three years or 
until the age of 37 years. 

However, we find the great teachings of Jesus 
might be summed up in his moral teachings and his 
teachings of Immortality. He always favored the 
welfare of the common people, and especially the 
poor, as against the rich or capitalist class, he 
always taught the principle of brotherhood ;and 
equality; in other words, he taught Socialism pure 
and simple, and we find today the teachings of 
the spirit friends nearly always teach the same 
principles, but do not teach the fall of man, 
vicarious atonement, or eternal damnation, except 
in a few cases where a Priest, Minister, or ignorant 
Layman in spirit, has been able to control a medium 
before said medium had outgrown his church 
belief. 

Some of our ablest writers say, "A belief in 
immortality, not only consoles the individual, but 
is a powerful influence to bring peace between 
individuals, tending to cause them to become as 
brothers striving to assist each other. This I con- 
sider as being true. 

But we find the church has condemned every 
proof of the continuity of life since the council of 
Nice, except what has come through the Pope or 
the Priest or through Rulers by so called divine 
right, rulers of the Church and State. 

The teachings of the Spirits were too good, too 



12 JESUS THE NAZARINE 

high to be given to the common people, because it 
would have freed them from bondage, from serf- 
dom, and they would no longer have been subject 
to the rulers by divine right, so the rulers would 
no longer have been able by their aid, to amass 
wealth and live in idle luxury. 

Spiritualism has absolutely proven the Continu- 
ity of life or immortality, and that no soul is con- 
demned to eternal torment, neither can people 
rid themselves of their own wrong doings, by cast- 
ing their burdens of wrong on the shoulders of 
others. 

The church refers with pride to the great ad- 
vance it has made, but it must not be forgotten 
that the church today is in league with the 
Capitalist class, the rich, contrary to the teaching 
of Jesus, and with the untold millions of money 
that has been taken from the common people, and 
spent in teaching the great fiction, as upheld by 
the church, it seems wonderful that it has not 
made greater progress. 

I do not hesitate to say that if the Spiritualistic 
teachings could use one half the amount expend- 
ed directly and indirectly to advance the church 
teachings, that in less than ten years Spiritualists 
would out number the Christians by ten to one, if 
not more, for there are no higher morals taught 
by any church, and no other church teaches and demon- 
strates the fact of the continuity of life. 



13 
Music Of the Spheres 

It's music that stirs the soul 

To wonderful deeds of war; 
Music, that softens the heart, 

With wonderful soothing power. 

It's music, of martial band, 

Or orchestras that play, 
That has called the masses in 

From the country far away. 

It's the deep toned organs peal, 

The sweet trilling voice that's heard, 

That calls to worship today, 

Far more than the Master's word. 

It's music, holy and high, 

Of Nature, that stirs the soul, 
In old oceans solemn roar, 

Or the thunders mighty roll. 

In the tiny insects song, 

Or Chirp of birds, in the trees, 
The voice of grasses or grain 

When stirred by the balmy breeze. 

Or thoughts of the flight of time, 
How short is the mortal breath, 

But music, from heaven's clime, 
Still repeats, there is no death. 

As solemn, and lone, at night, 

We look at the stars on high, 
And feel that thrill of heart, 

As worlds seem moving by. 

It's music of the spheres, 

That shall touch each human soul, 
To lift them from thoughts of wrong, 

To good, while the ages roll. 

Not one weak soul shall die, 

Not in all the coming years, 
For it is recorded thus, 

In the music of the spheres. 



14 

THOUGHT DOES TRAVEL 

It has been stated by one of the great Chautau- 
qua speakers that there is a class of people up in 
New England, that claim to send their thoughts 
out over the country, similar to the electric currents 
of the wireless telegraph, and heal the sick and 
then he says, "THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTH- 
ING IN IT." 

Answering this statement I wish to present a 
few facts. 

It is a well known fact that suggestion heals, 
likewise suggestion often injures or makes ill, 
which can easily be demonstrated. For instance; A 
lady was washing and called her daughter to 
wring some clothes from the bluing water. It 
turned her finger nails blue, she called her mothers 
attention to it, and the mother said, "They do look 
bad, do you feel ill?" She replied, "yes" and 
came near fainting. It was several days before she 
recovered from the effect of that suggestion, 
although the mother saw at once, what was com- 
ing and told her she was all right, it was only just 
the bluing in the water that had settled on her 
nails, but the suggestion had done its work, and 
the correction was too late to overcome what had 
been done. 

Another case, A man with rheumatic trouble so 
he could not walk without crutches, was cured by 
a slap on the back, together with the suggestion, 
"Take that and be well, it's better than the rheu- 
matism," In less than ten minutes the crutches 
were thrown aside and the man was free from 
rheumatic trouble. 

This is undoubtedly one class of healing done as 
Spirit healing, Christian Science healing, Mind 
cure, Faith cure etc, no matter what you call it, it 
serves to demonstrate that there is a healing power 
in suggestion, and if it be anything more than sug- 



THOUGHT DOES TRAVEL 15 

gestion, then that power goes with the suggestion, 
a healer may sit down by a patient and say, "Now 
keep very quiet for a short time and just remember 
this, I am going to sit down by you and relieve you 
of that severe pain." You will realize that it is 
growing less, and it will soon be gone, and you will 
rapidly recover. 

However there are other healing forces that do 
not come under the head of suggestion. 

Now since Suggestion heals, and suggestions are 
thoughts expressed and received, the question is, 
does thought travel without material contact? 

It is a matter of history, that when the English 
were fighting in India, the Natives at Bombay 
would receive accurate reports of the results of 
battles in the interior, from twelve to twenty-four 
hours quicker than the English could, although 
the English had control of the country and the best 
facilities for transmitting; information that could 
be had at that time. 

When asked how they got the information, they 
replied, "Our friends at the front, send out their 
thoughts, and we have sensitives here that can re- 
ceive them. 

There is also ample evidence in Mind reading, 
Thought Transference, Spirit or Soul Communion, 
as recorded in the papers during the past few 
years, thus establishing the fact that thought does 
travel without material contact. 

Now scientists tell us that all substances, of 
whatever nature, have their certain rate of vi- 
bration, and to change the rate of vibration, 
changes the substance. 

To illustrate, a cake of ice, when heat is applied, 
which is a higher rate of vibration, the ice becomes 
water, still more heat and it becomes steam, again 
more heat and it becomes super heated steam or 
vapor; it vanishes, we can no longer see it, yet we 
know it is not destroyed. If in an air tight recep- 
tacle, it can be condensed back into water and 



16 THOUGHT DOES TRAVEL 

frozen into ice of the same weight as before. 

Now I want you to remember that,action, of what- 
ever kind, is always the result of energy, and thought being 
action, is the result of energy set in motion. Action, by the 
soul, the living conscious entity that can say, "Z thi?ik therefore 
I airf ' hence thought is not a thing, but it is the result of a 
thing, the soul, which sets energy in action, which actio?i is vi- 
bration. 

In writing this on the paper, I am only using 
characters, which if understood, will start your 
conscious entity acting in the line of thought ex- 
pressed in these characters by my conscious entity. 

So our great means of transmitting thought to a 
distance as papers and letters are not direct trans- 
mission, for it is only done by signs, yet I fully be- 
lieve the time will come when thought will be 
largely transmitted from soul to soul without the 
use of material things as pen, ink and paper. 

Now I wish to make some notes on vibration and 
see what it can do for us. 

Here is a piano, yonder across the room is an- 
other. If the two pianos are in exact tune with 
each other and you play this piano, the wires on 
the other will vibrate, playing the same music. 
This is caused by the vibration of the air. But if 
these instruments are not in tune with each other, 
its strings will not respond to the air vibrations, as 
they cannot vibrate in harmony with the air vibra- 
tions. YOU SEE THEY ARE VERY SENSITIVE; 
only a slight difference in the tuning changes their 
rate of vibration. 

Now over yonder is a lady who, by nature, or by 
long and careful effort, has become so sensitive, 
so in harmony with soul vibrations of those in 
Spirit life, that she can often catch their soul 
vibrations and transmit them through her vocal 
organs, giving forth the thought or message they 
would send if this be true, then thought can travel. 

It is only a process of nature, but the world has 
gone mad, as it were, seeking the almighty dollar 



THOUGHT DOES TRAVEL 17 

(the God of the twentieth century) and neglected 
the higher Spiritual forces which constantly tend to 
make life sweeter and the world better every- 
where. 

Now another feature of vibration: If you strike 
something with a hammer you have a single sound, 
but if you strike at the rate of sixteen times per 
second, you have a continuous sound, a low musical 
tone; if you increase the number of strokes per 
second, you have a higher musical tone until you 
reach a rate of three thousand per second, at this 
rate the tone is so high, and the vibrations so rapid, 
the human ear cannot vibrate at that rate, and you 
cannot hear the sound produced. 

However, we know there are more rapid sound 
vibrations and higher tones, which are heard by 
birds, small animals and insects. Certainly insects 
have a voice and ears to hear it. 

Watch the Robin on the lawn some morning, see 
him hopping along and stopping to listen, Now 
watch him closely, notice him turn his head one 
side and listen intently, then make a sudden dive 
and pull up an earth worm, and away he goes to 
feed the little robins in the home nest. 

How did he know where the worm was? He 
heard it, heard a sound you could not hear, and by 
the sound located it. 

Now you see the human ear cannot hear sounds 
that vibrate at least much more than three 
thousand per second, (since the wonderful de- 
velopment of the Radiophone and amplifier it is 
claimed that a rate of near seven thousand has 
been heard) The next rate of vibration of which 
Man is conscious, dull red light which scientists tell 
us is the rate of 466 trillion times per second, while 
the ultra violet ray vibrates at the rate of 699 
trillions times per second. 

Between these two rates, your eyes can see, but 
the immense field between 3000 which you hear, 
and 466 trillion times per second which you see, 



18 THOUGHT DOES TRAVEL 

you cannot comprehend. 

While we know that such vibrations fill this 
great field, we know but very little of what it con- 
tains, neither do we know what is beyond the 
limit of light. 

It is only natural for those who have a know- 
ledge of Spirit life and spirit communion, to think 
that the spirit of our lost ones are within the great 
scope of vibrations which we can neither see nor 
hear with the human eye or ear. 

Now since everything which we can see or hear, 
has its individual rate of vibration, and since there 
is such a difference between the rate of vibrations 
we hear, and those we see, it is only natural to 
suppose THERE ARE THINGS in that space that 
we cannot see or hear, so we would ask the skeptic 
to stop and think, before he says there is no such 
thing as spirits, because he cannot hear or see 
them, but rather, let us think there are many 
things we do not know of as yet. 

Is it not possible that the spirits of the departed 
have a vibratory rate between what we can hear 
and what we can see, and that it is only their 
vibratory rate that hides them from us? 

We can hardly say there is no such thing as 
spirit, for it has been recorded by every known 
race as far back as any record has been kept. Go 
back to the teachings of the old Bible, to Confu- 
cius, to Brahma, Buddha, Jesus, to the wilds of 
Africa, and the natives of our own America, and 
we find some of the most beautiful legends, to say 
nothing of the wonderful spirit phenomena, of the 
present day. 

Now I have traced vibration to some extent with 
a view to showing that our spirit friends are right 
around us here in earth life, yet on account of 
their vibratory rate we can neither hear nor see 
them with the ordinary eye or ear. 

Now let us consider what the telephone has done 
for us, and how it works. You call up your friend 



THOUGHT DOES TRAVEL 19 

over at the next town, he answers and you say, 
"Hello John, how are you to day?" Pretty well, 
thank you. How are you?" comes back at once. 
You do not have to ask who is talking, you re- 
cognize the voice, but what has happened? 

Your conscious living entity, that, as it were, 
stands back of your brain, SENDS FORTH ITS 
THOUGHT VIBRATIONS BY MEANS OF EN- 
ERGY WHICH IT SETS IN ACTION. These 
thought waves reach the sensorum where they are 
analized, and sent to that part of the brain that con- 
trols your vocal organs, causing them to vibrate, 
your vocal organs, acting, send forth sound vibra- 
tions acting on the air causing it to vibrate, the 
vibrating air strikes the transmitter plate causing 
it to vibrate, the vibrating transmitter plate causes 
a varying pressure on the electric contact points 
of the transmitter, causing a varying current of 
electricity to be sent out over the line wire; this 
current of electricity passes through a coil of wire 
around a permanent magnet in the receiver, at the 
opposite end of the line, this causes a vibration of 
the magnetic force in the permanent magnet of the 
receiver. This varying magnetic force in the re- 
ceiver magnet causes the plate of the receiver to 
vibrate, which causes the air to vibrate, which 
reaches to the ear drum causing it to vibrate, from 
thence it goes to the brain and the sensorum where 
it is analized and sent to the Conscious soul. 

Yes, fourteen changes not only for each word, as 
in the words " I, " or " it, " but fourteen changes 
for every letter that is represented in the spoken 
words. 

Now do you wonder that sometimes you do not 
hear well, what is spoken into the phone, especially 
when the speaker turns away from the phone, in- 
stead of speaking directly into it as should be done? 
And is it not a still greater wonder that you can 
recognize the voice of your friend? Would you 
not think that to hear the voice at all would be 



so THOUGHT DOES TRAVEL 

practically the limit under such a wonderful 
variety of changes? 

The brain is not the thinking power; if it was, 
the quality of the voice would be the same for each 
individual, for the brain substance is the same in 
each individual; true the vocal organs can pro- 
duce different tones of the musical scale, but the 
QUALITY of the voice does not change when the 
pitch of the tone is changed. 

Now the individual soul of each individual is 
different from any other; like unto the blades of 
grass, they are similar, but no two alike. 

Yes, you are a soul, and yozi are different from every other 
soul, and that is what constitutes your personality. 

Now it is your soul-YOU-that sets energy in 
action to send forth your thoughts. In other words 
it is your soul that strikes your vocal organs caus- 
ing them to vibrate giving forth the quality of tone 
that corresponds to your soul, not your body, but 
you. 

To illustrate, take a bar of steel and suspend it 
at the center by a string. Now strike it and it will 
give forth a certain tone; no matter what is used 
to strike it, it always gives forth a sound or tone at 
a certain pitch of the musical scale. 

Now strike it with a steel hammer and you get 
the same tone and a certain quality of that tone, 
now strike it with a lead hammer and you still 
have the same pitch of tone, but a different qual- 
ity. Now strike it with a wood hammer and you 
have still another quality, showing that the qual- 
ity of the tone is according to that which strikes the 
bar; you see the pitch of the tone is the same in 
each case, but the QUALITY is different, so we 
say it is your soul, YOU, that strikes your vocal 
organs, sending forth a quality of tone that 
represents your personality. So please do not 
longer think that there is no such thing as a per- 
sonality, a soul, that is acting on the brain. 

Now with this demonstration, together with the 



THOUGHT DOES TRAVEL 21 

fact that man has been able to study out and 
build such a wonderful machine as the telephone, 
and also the phonograph which not only catches 
the vibrations, but makes a material record of 
them, from which the words recorded can be re- 
produced with the same quality of voice as the 
original speaker, also has been able to make the 
wonderful camera, that catches those rapid vibra- 
tions of light from any object in less than one five 
hundredth part of a second, making a fine photo 
possible. 

With all these to man's credit, dare you say 
that when in a trance condition, that there is not 
occasionally a brain so sensitive that it can catch 
the vibrations from another soul, an independent, 
conscious, living entity, giving forth words in a 
quality of voice different from that of the speak- 
er when in normal condition, as is so often noticed 
in trance speakers? 

Now bear in mind that the soul consists of Spirit, 
Consciousness, Intelligence, which are principles 
infinite, eternal, unchangeable in nature. 

Knowing these things how can you say that a 
spirit cannot send out thought waves, vibrations, 
that can be caught by a sensitive brain, as has been 
demonstrated many millions of times. 

If they can do this then thought travels with- 
out material contact, at least as material is 
generally considered. 

Now one thing more regarding the phone; the 
phone does not transmit thought, words are not 
thought, they are only symbols or signals rep- 
resenting thought. 

To prove that thought does not travel over the 
phone line, call up a foreigner whose language 
you do not understand and who does not under- 
stand your language, and neither one can get the 
thought the other would express, hence we would 
say thoughts are not things, they are the result of 
things, even as the vibration of the steel bar is the 



22 THOUGHT DOES TRAVEL 

result of the stroke it receives from the hammer. 

Now since vibration travels, and since thought is 
always originally expressed in vibration-in other 
words, thought of itself is vibration, and sound 
and light are also vibration-we know that vibra- 
tions travel, and since we have thousands of re- 
cords of thought transference or soul communion, 
and since suggestion heals, we can hardly deny the 
statement that the parties up in New England can 
send out their thought suggestions, and heal the 
sick at a distance. 

Now to those who may differ with me, if you 
can give a better explanation than I have done, or 
base a denial of my claims on a more substantial 
basis, please to come forward at once for the think- 
ing reasoning world today, are ready and anxious 
for real knowledge, the truth that can make us 
free. 

I ask this feeling that the kindly interchange of 
thought always tends towards advancement. 




23 



FOREORDAINED 

If there be an infinite 

Eternal living one, 
Who hath created all there is 

And keeps it rolling on. 

And if that God is infinite 
In knowledge, and in power, 

Knowing past and present, all, 
And each succeeding hour. 

'Tis then, that he can govern all 

That is, or is to be. 
And man can never think or act 

Except by his decree. 

And if he knew, and made a hell, 
To burn earths varied crew, 

He did ten million times more wrong 
Than mortal man could do. 

The tree, must by its fruit be known, 

As every mortal should, 
But making all, he made the bad, 

As well as made the good. 

If he foreknew and had all power, 
He might have made all good. 

Perhaps he had so much of bad, 
He did the best he could. 

But this precludes infinity, 

And limits his condition- 
To fail to rule the universe, 

Might lose him his position. 

Or, if he knew what was to be, 

It never can be changed, 
And all things being foreordained 

Cannot be, re-arranged. 



FOREORDAINED 

So God has nothing more to do, 

For he has lost control. 
By foreordaining, all to be, 

While endless ages roll. 

And man must be as foreordained, 

Whether ill or well; 
Whether to play a harp and sing, 

Or roast in endless hell. 



I PLOWED MY LAST FURROW 

Today when my boy was out plowing, 

I plowed once around the old field, 
Where you and I did our first planting 

And had such a wonderful yield, 
Yes love, I have plowed my last furrow 

I also have sown my last grain, 
I'm past eighty two and tomorrow 

You know is my birthday again. 

— .•CHORUS:— 

Yes love, I have plowed my last furrow, 

My body is weary and worn, 
And soon I shall drop it and leave you, 

You'll miss me but please do not mourn, 
Yes love, before long I shall leave you. 

But when you come to me some morn, 
I'll open heavens door and will meet you, 

Yes meet you, so please do not mourn. 

We've had a good long happy journey 

Together we've laughed and we've cried 
But now we have learned of the future, 

The home just beyond the divide, 
We know that our lost ones are waiting 

To welcome us when we shall come, 
So when you do think of me, dear one, 

Just think I have only gone home. 

Music for the above song may be obtained from the Author 



25 

BE YOUR OWN SAVIOR 

Be your own savior, do not depend on an un- 
known God. 

Knowing that many people get the meaning of 
the two words "Conscience" and "Conscious" or 
"Consciousness" mixed, I wish to give a definition 
of the two, in the light in which I see them. 

Consciousness- the state of being conscious, 
knowledge of ones own existance, condition, Sen- 
sations, Mental operations, etc. A principle eternal 
in nature. 

Conscience- a moral quality, the ability to de- 
cide between right and wrong, good or evil, kind- 
ness or cruelty. Like education, Conscience is 
always a growth. 

Now to the subject — Man cannot find a single 
thing in all his search for facts, for truth and 
knowledge, that even gives a hint, that there is a 
controlling power outside the laws of nature, which 
seem to be inherent in the thing itself. 

There is no such thing as miracle. All things are 
governed by the Infinite, Eternal, Unchangeable, 
Omnipresent principles inherent in each and every 
part of nature itself. 

Even the atom, so small it cannot be seen by 
ordinary microscopic aid, always behaves the 
same, under the same conditions; it never acts by 
chance, but always under the power of natural 
law. 

Scientists tell us that each atom, has one or 
more electrons revolving around it, similar to the 
planets revolving around the sun, which electrons 
always behave the same, under like conditions, 
The action of these electrons may be governed by 
conscious intelligence, for aught we know, for 
Consciousness and Intelligence are principles, or 
laws, not things. 

In a common way, it can be shown that law 
governs, by the action of Hydrogen and Oxygen 



26 BE YOUR OWN SAVIOR 

from which water originates. 

Now water is not composed of Hydrogen and 
Oxygen gasses, as some suppose, but water is the 
result of the combustion of Hydrogen and Oxygen 
gasses, when mixed in the exact proportion of two 
of Hydrogen and one of Oxygen; if the mixture 
contains more or less of one of these gasses, they 
will not explode or burn and produce water. 

Now is there a personal God, watching these 
gasses throughout all the universe, to see that they 
do not burn or explode when not properly mixed? 
Or, is there a law inherent in these gasses that 
prevents their burning, unless they are mixed in 
the exact proportion? 

We claim they are governed by law, which we 
would call the law of affinity, of these gasses, which 
governs the matter of their burning entirely, the 
conditions must always be the same to produce the 
same result. But, some one says, "These gasses 
were created by God with the law of affinity in and 
governing them." If that be the case and the gasses 
have been created with the eternal unchangeable 
law within them, then God has finished his work 
in that respect, and has nothing more to do with it, 
that is, he has put himself out of a job, by putting 
the laws into the gasses. 

Now if this be true in all cases where the law is 
inherent in the things of nature, then we can find 
nothing in nature that God still controls, for of all 
the things in nature, that man has been able to 
investigate and determine, not one single thing 
escapes this government by inherent law. 

I often use the word "principle" instead of 
"Law" for many people get the idea that "law" is 
a written or spoken rule, as are our State and 
National laws, hence must have a law giver, while 
natural laws, are principles inherent in the various 
things of nature, and are Eternal, Unchangeable, 
Omnipresent, and being boundless, unlimited, we 
call them infinite. There can be no place where 



BE YOUR OWN SAVIOR 27 

these principles are not. 

To illustrate, we find our system of weights, 
based on the principle of gravity, which principle 
we cannot see; we do not know what it is, but we 
do know it exists in, or is acting on, material sub- 
stance everywhere. 

The same with the law of numbers, two and two 
always equal four, not because man has said it is 
so, but because it is a principle in nature that can- 
not be changed. 

A certain rate of vibration produces a certain 
musical tone, whether it be produced by a vibra- 
ting string, a bar of steel, or the human voice, 
although the QUALITY of the tone varies accord- 
ing to the personality of that which causes the 
vibration, as, striking a bar of steel with different 
substances causes a certain pitch of tone, but of a 
different quality, as also does the soul, that 
through the brain strikes the vocal organs, trans- 
mitting the personal soul quality of the voice, to 
that individual musical tone. 

We might cite many things which you cannot 
see or hear, yet we know they exist; we fully be- 
lieve that all things are governed by these in- 
herent principles, which are, and always have 
been, without beginning and will be without 
ending. 

Now I wish to impress upon your mind the fact 
that consciousness, intelligence and spirit, are 
principles eternal, unchangeable in nature, and 
these three seem to constitute the soul which can say I think, 
therefore I am. 

This soul, composed of these three eternal 
principles, seems to be the only thing in nature 
which can of itself, set energy in action, thereby producing 
thought vibrations and transmitting it through the brain to the 
vocal organs, or muscles of the body, causing them to act, the 
only thing that can will what it will do. 

It can continue to live as a soul; it will live as a 



28 BE YOUR OWN SAVIOR 

soul after the change called death; it will be 
conscious, will know and understand, will have 
intelligence, will be the same personality it was 
while sojourning in the material body. 

Remember, the soul is you, and the body is only 
the house you are living in, and when you step out 
into the broader life, the great and perfect day, 
the body ceases to act, because you, the individ- 
ual living soul, have left it, cast it aside, because 
the subconscious mind has failed to keep it in 
order so you could use it, or live in it longer. 

Now do not fear that a personal God will meet 
out to us an eternal punishment, for the wrong 
done by some other one in the long ago past, be- 
cause all things are governed by these eternal, un- 
changeable laws, and not by a personal angry God. 

We are punished for our own wrong doings, 
and for our unavoidable hereditary conditions and 
many times we are punished while ignorant of 
doing wrong. 

For instance, a man being ignorant of the fact, 
picks up a hot iron and is burned, is punished, not 
for doing wrong, but because he was ignorant of 
the fact that the iron was hot. Yes, ignorance is 
wrong, but such punishment is not eternal, it is 
only temporary, and nature or natural law steps 
in to repair the injury; by natural law we out grow 
the punishment. We do wrong thoughtlessly and 
receive punishment which we remember, and 
thereby learn not to do the same again. 

You see, our wrong doing detracts from our en- 
joyment; in their words, our ignorance of the 
infinite eternal principles in nature and failing to 
live in harmony with them, injures our health, 
retards our growth morally and mentally, and 
detracts from our knowledge and enjoyment. 

Sometimes we do wrong knowingly, and against 
our best judgment, and some times we become 
angry and do wrong willfully. 

Such wrongs are a sin against our selves, and 



BE YOUR OWN SAVIOR 29 

are harder to overcome and outgrow than a 
wrong of the same class, when done accidentally 
or thoughtlessly. To allow ones self to become 
angry, is in itself a sin, although no other wrong be 
committed, for anger always injures, often makes 
ill. Anger is directly opposed to the happiness we 
wish to attain; even the breath exhaled by an 
angry person contains an intense poison. 

Our knowledge and our conscience, which are a 
growth with each individual are our saviors from 
punishment both here and hereafter, for without 
them to guide us, we transgress the laws of nature 
and live wrong, both morally and ignorantly, for 
both of which we are punished. That which in- 
jures or retards our physical or mental growth or 
development and enjoyment, also injures or re- 
tards our spiritual advancement, which is our 
punishment. 

Then let us strive to improve ourselves morally 
and mentally, strive to attain a better knowledge 
of the infinite, eternal principles of nature. 

Yes, let us think, reason and know; let us live 
to our highest understanding of that which is good 
and true, shunning that which is evil and judging 
carefuly between kindness and cruelty; let us 
learn to do unto others as we would be done by, 
under simular circumstances thereby avoiding 
as much as possible, the punishment that might 
otherwise be ours, and gaining all of real true 
happiness we can atttain to. In other words LET 
US BE OUR OWN SAVIOR. 



3° 

THE WASHING MACHINE 

She lived away back in the earlier time, 

Not in the cold north, but a fair summer clime, 

Where clothing was simple, consisting in main, 
Of just a long dress, that was made very plain. 

It was in those times, that she lived, so they said, 
Was born and grew up, and was finally wed, 

And during her girlhood she tried to keep clean, 
And often at morning or evening was seen 

Way out on the log that fell into the lake, 

Washing some clothing, she would rinse them 
and shake; 
She would rub twixt her hands each wrinkle or 
fold, 
To wash from the garment the dirt it might 
hold, 

For in olden times, it is plain to be seen, 

They had not invented the washing machine. 

On their washing days, when their washing was 
done, 
It was hung on the trees and dried in the sun. 

But after long years of time rolled away, 
A cripple came down to the lake one day, 

And she walked way out a long way, on the log, 
And there sitting down, she looked much like a 
frog. 

Having only one hand to use in her work, 

She rubbed the soiled clothing against the rough 
bark. 

This one handed, maid and the bark of the tree, 
Was natures first hint, of what yet was to be. 

And so was invented, greatest wonder e'er seen, 
A rough wooden board, for a washing machine. 

Their washing utensils were, shell of a gourd, 
A trough or a tub, and this rough wooden board. 



THE WASHING MACHINE 31 

Again, for long years of slow progress, so sad, 
They used this rough board, 'till their hearts 
were made glad 
By some clever fellow, who happened to think 
To cover these boards with a smooth piece of 
zinc. 

Oh what an improvement, oh is'nt it fine, 
Of course I will have one put on over mine, 

And these same zinc boards, are in use here today, 
Though some people wash in the new fangled 
way. 

And some people say while the zinc board will 
pass, 
It is easier still, with a rubber of glass, 
Progress by nature, points the way we should go, 
It is rubbing and scrubbing, knocks the dirt out 
we know. 

It is by slow progress that good things all come, 
Some thinker will think, and bring his thoughts 
home, 
So some time, we'll have a power washing 
machine, 
To rub and to scrub 'till our clothes are all clean. 

While we've learned how best our clothing to 
clean, 

There is so much dirt, that don't seem to be seen, 
And the most filthy thing a fellow can find, 

Is an ignorant, bigoted, dogmatic mind. 

And so, let us learn in a onehanded way, 
A little plain lesson from nature today. 

Oh let us remember, our life must be clean, 
Yet no one can buy a life washing machine. 

There was one invented, by the pope or his clerk, 
But it's a great failure, it never would work. 

The blood of the lamb doesn't wash white as 
snow; 
Our sins will go with us, where ever we go. 



32 THK WASHING MACHINE 

For it is by the fruit, the tree shall be known, 
No soul can be washed by some other one. 

Then wash from your mind, all those dogmas of 
old, 
That fill it so full, that no truth it can hold. 

Then wash out those old taints of prejudice, foul, 
That hang like a cloud over many a soul, 

And let in the light, when presented to view, 
Consider it, test it, and prove it is true. 

Yes seek for true knowledge, wash it out from the 
sand, 

Stand upright, be nature's true nobleman, grand. 
Then bear this in mind, that truth makes us clean, 

But each one, must be, his own washing machine. 



When The Light Shines In 

When light from above, 
From the lost ones we love, 
Smiles into the souls of men, 
Then freedom that's true, 
Will bring peace unto you, 
The world will be better then. 




33 

CREATION OR EVOLUTION 

Being in answer to an article in the Progressive Thinker, in which 
the writer asks, "does the soul of a murderer cease to exist after 
death." 

I have noticed many different views regarding 
Infinite Intelligence, with which I disagree, and 
while I long considered it as being a new name for 
the same old personal God, yet I have come to 
accept it in a different light. 

I am not infallible in my thought, and make no 
claim to know whether the soul of a murderer 
ceases to exist after death, or not; but let me say 
right here, if I really believed that it ceases to 
exist, and if I also believed in eternal damnation, 
eternal torture for Adam's sin, as taught by the 
churches (as the reasoning man can see little hope 
for escape from that punishment since it was fore- 
ordained even before the earth existed) — if that 
teaching be true, then it would be a great temp- 
tation to commit murder in order to escape the end- 
less ages of hell fire promised to those who do not 
believe, which is the punishment to be meted out 
to them by an unjust and angry God. 

However, I do not believe such teachings, neither 
do I fear such punishment. I do believe that no soul 
can ever die, for Intelligence, Consciousness and 
Spirit are principles eternal in nature. By the word 
soul I mean the conscious, living entity — that 
which can say, "I think, therefore I am." 

If you cannot think, you are dead, so far as you 
know. You cannot control your body if you are 
unconscious, so really all there is of you so far as 
earth life is concerned is your consciousness. 

Now, in regard to creation: It seems to me that 
one of two theories must be true: either all things 
were created in a manner similar to that described 
in the Bible, or it must have always existed in some 
form, and attained its present condition by or 



34 CREATION OR EVOLUTION 

through the processes of evolution, which are still 
going on. I am strongly inclined to believe the 
latter is the case, for several reasons; and you 
know we must use our reasoning power in order to 
establish a foundation on which to base our con- 
clusions or belief. 

Let us consider a creation by an all-wise and all- 
powerful God. Where was that God before 
creation was? Can you tell? Where was he before 
time and space were, if they were created? But 
you say time and space have always existed. Well, 
if they did always exist, then the laws governing 
them must have always existed. We grant your 
claim that time and space always existed, and now 
God is ready to create the universe, a pretty good- 
sized job, to be sure, but he is all-wise and all- 
powerful, and is ready to begin it at once. But there 
is a block in his way, he cannot move a particle of 
substance, or make any combination of substances, 
or give orders to any of his helpers, if he had any. 
Why? Because nothing can be moved without 
energy by which to move it. 

A personal God could not even think without 
energy a thought could not be sent through his own 
brain without energy behind it. Under natural law 
there is absolutely no motion, no action, without 
energy to cause motion or action. 

Will you say that, like time and space, energy 
has always existed? I will leave that to you, but 
if you admit that energy has always existed, then 
the laws governing it have always existed. 

Now, all the living, moving things of earth de- 
pend on energy. The sun's warm rays quicken 
everything into action. The sun's rays are but vi- 
bration, which is energy in action. It touches the 
grasses and grain, the shrub and the trees, fishes, 
birds and animals; it paints the daintily tinted 
flowers. No, not even music, or man, could ex- 
ist without energy. 

Scientists tell you that vibration is the basis of 



35 CREATION OR EVOLUTION 

all substance, and vibration is simply energy in 
action. It is a well known fact that to change 
the rate of vibration will change the 
form or condition of substance. A high rate means 
heat, a slow rate means cold. By increasing the 
vibratory rate of ice, sand, iron, they change form, 
or melt, as it is termed. 

Now, if we admit that time, space, energy, have 
always existed, it would only be a step farther to 
admit that all things have always existed in some 
form, and each substance has become individual- 
ized according to its vibratory rate. 

Now, when I speak of "natural law," I do not 
mean a written or spoken word, but I do mean the 
infinite, eternal, unchangeable principles in nature 
that govern and control the universe and all things 
therein. 

If all things were created by a personal God, to 
whom all the armies have been praying for help 
during the world war, then that God must have 
been greater than the job he has done, for the laws 
of nature tell us that the creator must be greater 
than the thing created ; that the power required to 
overcome an obstruction must be greater than the 
resistance of the obstruction. So it requires no 
greater stretch of the imagination to accept the 
thought that all things have always existed, than to 
think that a creator greater than all creation, has 
created them. 

Now, let us suppose that a great God has creat- 
ed all things, and the laws governing all things. 
Careful consideration tells us that nature's laws 
are infinite, eternal, immutable, omnipresent, un- 
changeable, so we see that the very minute laws 
were created governing all things, that minute God 
was out of a job. 

Yes, evolution is constantly going on, but always 
under the same unchangeable laws that have al- 
ways existed. For example : two and two are four, 
not because man has said it is so, but because it is 
a principle in nature that is omnipresent and un- 



36 CREATION OR EVOLUTION 

changeable. 

Regarding the soul, we know it exists after the 
change called death, as demonstrated by spirit 
communion. I cannot think it will ever cease to 
exist, even though the man, in earth life, had been 
a murderer. 

To me the soul seems to be the extreme height of 
the great mountain of evolution, for it is capable 
of setting energy in action, and we know of noth- 
ing else that can do this, though accident may. 

To me the soul of man seems to be a trinity, a 
combination consisting of three great principles in 
nature. First, spirit, which exists in the material 
body during earth life, and which is the spiritual 
body, of which Paul said there is a natural (mean- 
ing material) body and there is a spiritual body. 
Second, the principle of intelligence, by which we 
consider and weigh whatever is presented for our 
consideration, or shun it for fear we will know. 
And third, the consciousness, without which we 
could not know that we exist. 

I believe these three infinite, eternal unchange- 
able principles in nature is about all there is of any 
of us: consciousness, intelligence, spirit. And I 
fully believe we each one shall exist after the 
change called death, and that we shall in some way 
advance, progress, overcome and compensate for 
any evil acts we have done, gradually improving 
under the great principles of evolution. 

I believe that when we Dass from earth life we 
are just what we were while here, minus the phys- 
ical body; we then will have passed away from 
material things, but we will not go at once to a 
place of eternal bliss, neither will we have the evil 
things and conditions of earth life to contend with, 
and the spark of good that is in us will be able to 
make rapid strides from a lower to a higher con- 
dition, and the happiness resulting from our pro- 
gress will assure us of the true happiness in the 
great and perfect day. 



37 

Climbing the Ladder of Life 

We think that every mortal will be happy if they 

can, 
And how they can attain it, is what we wish to 

plan, 
So let us build a ladder, from the earth unto the 

skies, 
Then let us think in earnest, how best we can arise, 

Let's name our ladder "knowledge," for by it we 

can climb, 
From lower plains of darkness to light of truth 

sublime, 
Let's base our ladder firmly on the solid rock of 

fact, 
And fortify it strongly, against a false attack. 

And let it's top be resting, beyond the clouds 

above, 
Against the broad dominion of universal love, 
And with our ladder builded, so strong, so straight 

and tall, 
We must not be too hasty, to rise, or we may fall, 

And now before our starting to reach that higher 

plain, 
We each should look around us and see what we can 

gain, 
As well as look within us, and learn how to prepare 
To make each day advance us, upon our journey 

there, 

Perhaps, we are not doing the very best we can 
To make our life successful and consumate our 

plan, 
Perhaps, we are not willing to investigate, and 

know, 
Fearing it will lead us from the way we like to go. 



38 CLIMBING THE LADDER OF LIFE 

Yet, oft we hear it stated that "truth," shall make 
you free. 

Then why not try to gain it, where ever it may be. 

Perhaps, you think, to reason, is doing very wrong, 

Yet, reason is the fountain, that makes true know- 
ledge strong, 

Perhaps, we find imbedded within our very soul 

A little germ of falsehood that often would con- 
trol, 

Then root it out, be honest with self, and every 
man, 

Think noble thoughts, live upright, the very best 
you can. 

Perhaps we may be bigots and think none others 

know, 
Yet, on tracing back we fail, one solid truth to 

show, 
Then look within, be earnest, if I am wrong I say, 
I would not risk my life work on wrong, another 

day. 

It would be but fool hardy, to cling to new, or old, 
That does not stand on reason, or has no truth to 

hold, 
So let us be consistent, our ladder to ascend, 
And make our daily living, with laws of nature 

blend. 

And now on looking round us, since we have look- 
ed within, 

What shall we do to aid us, our journey to begin, 

Since "facts" are our foundation, we should study 
them each day 

For every truth, that they shall teach, will aid us 
on the way. 



CLIMBING THE LADDER OF LIFE 39 

Since knowledge is our ladder, we surely cannot go 

A single step beyond the point that we have learn- 
ed to know, 

Since ignorance, leads downward, towards the 
slums and slime, 

To hatred, envy, falsehood, and foulest dens of 
crime, 

So let us help each other, as every body may, 
To rise above the evils of ignorance to day 
But we can only do it, by candid earnest thought, 
Do not condem a brother for work that he has 
wrought. 

He may have gained in knowledge a higher, purer, 

light, 
While you are still in darkness, then by yourself 

do right, 
By true investigation of that which he has wrought, 
For clinging to an error, can only bring you naught, 

Then, mark you well, all nature, and universal 

cause, 
Will bear the light of reason, and knowledge of 

its laws, 
And if above all nature, there is a power divine, 
All that man can know of it, must down through 

nature shine. 

And if that power has given, sound reason unto 

man, 
It's right for him to use it, the most and best he 

can. 
For on our journey upward on our ladder to the 

skies 
To use our careful judgment, will help us much. 

to rise. 



40 CLIMBING THE LADDER OF LIFE 

If we would gain that haven of universal love, 

Then we must love our brother, be worthy of his 
love, 

Then make your life work noble, as pure as cloud- 
less skies, 

That those who measure by it, will surely have to 
rise. 

Let earnest thought and study of thyself, and all 

you do, 
With charity and kindness, be ever held in view, 
Make every truth a treasure, and every noble 

thought 
A way mark, on life's ladder, to show where you 

have wrought. 




Oh there's something in true friendship 
That's worth a noble thought; 

For braver deeds have ne'er been done 
Than friend for friend has wrought. 



4i 

FEARS SPIRITUALISTS TOO CLOSE 

TO OLD-TIME RELIGIOUS 

BELIEFS 

Without a question of doubt the world today is 
in a condition where it is susceptible to great chang- 
es, especially is this true in regard to religion. 

Perhaps there has never been a time since the 
beginning of the Christian era, that so many peo- 
ple were dissatisified with their religious teachings 
as there are today. 

They have seen the great opposed nations and 
armies, each praying earnestly to the same great 
personal God, to help them win the war, to help 
them send their shot and shell to wound and kill, 
to make widows and orphans, to destroy property 
and cause hunger and starvation, and all kinds of 
sorrow and suffering. 

In this most important matter, neither army has 
been able to see any advantage resulting from 
its prayers, at least no benefit that would indicate 
that an all-wise, all-powerful and merciful God 
had taken action, no act worthy of such a God. If 
they believed, honestly believed, their God could or would ans- 
wer then prayers, why did they not pray that every bullet or 
shell should miss its mark, and that every szvord or bayonet 
should be stayed in its course before it cut or pierced the body of 
a poor mortal man. 

Answer to such a prayer would have been in 
harmony with the grand teachings of all the high- 
er religious principles, wherever or however taught, 
whether by Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, Christ 
or any other highly moral teacher. 

An answer to such a prayer would have been 
worthy of an all-wise, all-powerful God; it would 
have mystified mortal man; it would have shown 
the handiwork of a great and powerful God, a 



42 FEARS SPIRITUALISTS TOO CLOSE 

merciful God, and would have been in harmony 
with the principles of right, goodness, mercy and 
love. 

But the kind of prayers that were sent out were 
not worthy of action by an all-wise and merciful 
God. To have answered the prayers of Germany 
would have been to destroy the other nations, so a 
merciful God could not answer such prayers and 
be just. 

People are waking up to this thought, and so 
they are dissatisified with the old line of thought, 
that to be happy in the future life, the individual 
must believe in a certain line of thought, must be- 
lieve in the fall of man, the vicarious atonement, 
must repent for Adam's sin and be baptized, or go 
to eternal torment. Yes, I say eternal torment, for 
that is the penalty, just for the lack of such belief, 
even though the evidence is not sufficient to con- 
vince the individual that such teaching is true. 

Yet said individual is not at all to blame for the 
lack of the required evidence. 

It seems the old religious teaching under what- 
ever name it may occur, or in whatever nation or 
country it may be taught, each and every one, fail 
to furnish the needed evidence to convince the 
thinking man that it is true, hence the widespread 
disbelief among the reading and thinking people 
of earth everywhere. 

Now only the proper evidence can convince a 
man that a certain thing is true. Some are very 
easily convinced, while others think and reason 
deeper, and are not so easily convinced; then, too, 
the subject, to which the evidence is to apply, 
varies. 

To illustrate, suppose your true and trusted 
friend should tell you that Pete Johnson's house 
was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, 
no doubt you would believe him, you would need 
no further evidence. 

Now, suppose that same true friend should tell 



TO OLD-TIME RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 43 

you that he had attended a seance and actually 
saw his mother, who had passed away years ago, 
and had talked with her and that she had told him 
something that no one knew, but which on invest- 
igation proved to be true; you would not believe it, 
you would say that he was deceived in some way, 
or that he was insane on that subject — at least that 
is what practically every one would say unless they 
had some evidence besides what he told them. 

So you will see that lack of evidence has brought 
eternal suffering to many, if these teachings of the 
religious world today are true. 

You see also that this matter of belief in any 
strange or uncommon thing, cannot be accepted 
until it is made to appeal to the individual's reas- 
oning power, his mental capacity sufficiently to 
show him that it is true. 

And herein is where I fear the Spiritualists are 
drifting too close to the old time religious beliefs, 
too many prayers to an unknown God, and too lit- 
tle search for real scientific spiritual facts. Such 
facts will reach to the thinking and reasoning peo- 
ple of today, and their number is rapidly increas- 
ing. Invoke the aid of spirit friends, if you wish. 

This reminds me of the old woman's prayer. She 
had moved to a new home, but just in front of the 
house was a high hill that obstructed the view of 
the surrounding country. The preacher called on 
her to offer prayer and in his talk he quoted that 
passage from the Bible, wherein it is said, "If you 
have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can re- 
move mountains," so that night the old woman 
prayed long and earnestly for the Lord to remove 
the mountain from in front of her home, but in 
the morning she looked out and the mountain was 
still there, and she said, "It is just as I expected. I 
have prayed and prayed and prayed, but the Lord 
never did anything for me yet that I know of." 

This is where Spiritualists fail, they continue to 
pray to an unknown God, although that God never 



44 FEARS SPIRITUALISTS TOO CLOSE 

answers their prayers. But the old woman is ex- 
cusable, she did not know anything about Spirit- 
ualism, or Spirit communion, or she would have 
made a different prayer. Well, you see she seemed 
to think that she could fool the infinite, unchange- 
able laws of nature and get the hill removed. It 
did not work, it was not in harmony with the laws 
of nature for it to move. 

Now, we have read the old story of the orthodox 
teachings that we must believe or be eternally 
damned, eternally punished; but since so many 
millions of young men, unbelievers, unrepentant, 
have been sacrificed in the world war, men who 
were intelligent, conscientious, good men, yet men 
who did not have sufficient evidence to convince 
them that said teachings were true, I say, that 
since these conditions have occurred, the world is 
waking up to the thought that possibly the old 
teachings were not true after all. Waking up to 
the thought that possibly there may be a better 
teaching, a teaching that comes nearer into har- 
mony with infinite principles of nature, than that 
of foreordination or vicarious atonement, and they 
are looking around for something better. 

I think the masses today believe that we should 
only be punished for our own wrong doing, at most 
and not for sin of another man in the long ago 
past, whom the Bible says, "Did not know good 
from evil until the sin was committed." You have 
also read, "there is more rejoicing in heaven over 
one sinner that repents than over ninety and nine 
good men, men who had no sins for which to 
repent." 

For many years past the trend of science has 
been towards the teaching of materialism, or that 
death ends all for each individual, which to them 
seems better than to think of eternal punishment 
for something they could not, or cannot help, for 
they have not got the evidence, and cannot con- 
scientiously repent and become members of the 



TO OLD-TIME RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 45 

orthodox church, without making hypocrites of 
themselves. Such men are worthy of the honor in 
which they take pride. 

I believe that if the world could know today the 
origin of the Bible, and the establishment of the 
doctrine of the trinity as recorded in the two 
books, the Council of Nice and the Council of 
Trent, there would be thousands of church build- 
ings for sale before the end of the year 1922. 

Right here let me say, when I was seventeen 
years old, I became a member of an orthodox 
church (the Campbellites and the hump has not 
all worn off yet). I studied and prayed earnestly 
for help to convince my brother and get him to 
join the church with me, he asked me three 
questions, one of which was, "If an infinite and all- 
wise God has created all things and has also orig- 
inated the plan of redemption, it was just as 
essential that Jesus should have been betrayed as 
it was that he should have been crucified, and 
since it was all foreordained by God, as a part of 
his plan of redemption from the fall of man, then 
why should Judas be condemned, while Christ was 
glorified, since each one was doing a part of God's 
work which must be done as foreordained, in order 
that God's plan of redemption should be com- 
pleted?" 

One Sunday I asked our class leader what I 
should do to answer my brother's questions, and 
his reply was, "You have to quit studying or you 
will let a doubt creep in and you will be eternally 
damned." This answer astonished me, overcame 
me, for I had never had the least doubt but that 
the questions could be answered in a thoroughly 
intelligent, reasonable and satisfactory manner. 

I waited for some time before answering, then I 
said, "If I have got to give up the God-given prin- 
ciple of reason or give up the Bible, I will have to 
give up the Bible, for without the principle of 
reason, man is but a brute." To which he replied, 



46 FEARS SPIRITUALISTS TOO CLOSE 

"You are lost." 

Then I drifted into materialism, I finally came to 
believe that death ends all, but I was not long 
satisfied, for as I looked out over nature, I saw the 
principle of eternal progression, evolution, and 
among the whole array of mighty things, I saw one, 
that was greater, more mighty than all the rest, a 
conscious, thinking, reasoning man. 

Yes, I thought of the living, conscious entity, the 
soul of man, as the highest principle in nature, the 
most advanced product of the universe, the ex- 
treme summit of evolutionary progress. It was then 
I asked myself, "Can this sentient, suffering, con- 
scious entity that can think and say I am, can it be 
possible that this the highest and greatest of all na- 
ture's products can be doomed to everlasting 
death, or everlasting punishment?" 

At this point I became an agnostic, I could only 
say I do not know. For many years I was close, very 
close to the thought that death ends all. 

I was ready to receive the great light that was 
to illumine my life, and make my pathway bright 
as I travel down the incline towards the sunset of 
earthly life, the great light that is to illumine the 
world, yes, the light of truth for "the truth shall 
make you free." 

Now, let us give just a little lesson. When you go 
to your own home and sit quietly and receive a rap 
upon the table or chair, then by following the 
proper code, the raps spell out for you a message 
from the lost loved one, telling you something that 
no one knew, but which afterwards is proven to be 
true ; then you are beginning to get a little glimpse 
of the truth, when they spell out a message telling 
you that they live and are happy, and because they 
live you too shall live after the change called 
death. Then you are getting some of the evidence, 
some of the truth that shall make you free; free 
from the dogmas of the past erroneous teachings 
that you can do evil all your life and then repent 



TO OLD-TIME RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 47 

and be baptized at the eleventh hour, and go scot 
free to eternal bliss, on the shoulders of a crucified 
Christ, and you be happy, while your father, 
mother, brothers and sisters, wife and children are 
in eternal torment. Now, be honest, would you be 
happy under such conditions? 

Investigate, and gain this knowledge, this grand 
truth, and be free from the fear of punishment of 
such an awful God. Investigate and get the positive 
proof and be free from the unscientific teachings 
of the past, that would tell you that death ends all, 
free from the ignorance of the Agnostic, who does 
not know, for you will then know that there is a 
life after the change called death, and you will 
soon learn that you cannot ride into a place of 
eternal bliss on the shoulders of another, but what- 
soever wrong you do, you will have to overcome by 
good; you will have to grow into harmony with the 
golden rule, and live it, as well as to live in har- 
mony with the infinite principles of nature to the 
best of your ability. 

When you do this, you will not knowingly wrong 
a brother or sister, or even wrong any living 
creature, except in justice to yourself, t^en you 
will have received the light, the truth, that will 
make you free, make you a noble man or woman, 
worthy of the best the infinite powers of nature 
can give. 

Now, I have said to you that in the past, science 
has taught that there is nothing, or practically 
nothing, outside of so-called material substance, 
but today science has begun to look beyond the 
border line of earth life, much to its credit. It 
is beginning to demonstrate the fact of spirit 
communion and the continuity of life. 

Scientists have long taught that the brain is t^e 
originator of thought and beyond it there is noth- 
ing. 

Let us dig into this thought just a little. Let us 
take the phrenologist and the bad boy as an ex- 



48 FEARS SPIRITUALISTS TOO CLOSE 

ample, and see if the brain is the source of thought. 
The phrenoligist says the shape of this boy's head 
tells me that he is a bad boy and will undoubtedly 
become a bad man. Let us see what we can do for 
the boy; we place him where he can have only the 
very best surroundings, everything possible to bear 
upon him to make him better, teach him in every 
possible way, watching closely that he shall 
practice no wrong, and he grows up under these 
conditions. Now the phrenologist, although a 
stranger, tells him "you were a bad boy but for 
some reason, you have outgrown it, and your brain 
development now tells me you are a good man." 
Many of you older people have witnessed exactly 
similar change between boyhood and mature man- 
hood. 

Now, let me ask the question, does the evil tree 
bring forth good fruit? Does the bad brain develop 
a good brain? A good man? I think not exactly so, 
but good surroundings brought to bear on the bad 
boy, subdues the evil tendency develops a good 
brain, a good man. 

Right here is a lesson in a few words, and it is 
this — keep the children where they have good 
surroundings, if you wish to have good men and 
women in the coming years. Now, there is an old 
saying, "That as the twig is bent so will the tree be 
inclined," so we would hardly think a bad brain 
would develop a good one. How then did the evolu- 
tionary process act? 

Let us see, the surroundings being good, acted on 
the living conscious entity, the soul that is back of 
or outside the brain, and that conscious entity sent 
its thoughts through that brain, making a demand 
for a larger good, brain capacity. Now every 
thought passing through the brain, tears down 
some brain cells, and the subconscious mind, by 
means of the blood carries out the dead brain cells 
and replaces them with new ones, but wherever 
nature repairs an injury it always tries to build 



TO OLD-TIME RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 49 

stronger than before, while the unused part be- 
comes weakened. Notice the well arm that is 
placed in a sling for sixty days and see how weak 
it is. On the otherhand, notice the strong right arm 
of the blacksmith who handles the heavy hammer 
day after day. It makes a demand for larger, 
stronger muscles in his arm and they grow 
stronger. 

Now one more point and I will close. Scientists 
have told you much in the past regarding material 
things. That is true, they have told you that every 
motion of the arm or foot or other muscular action, 
or every thought sent through the brain actually 
tears down some part of the physical structure, 
and that the food we eat, and the water we drink 
is burned into blood by the oxygen in the air we 
breath, and the chemical action of the stomach. 
They also tell you the blood carries out of the 
system the particles destroyed by any action what- 
ever, and carries in new particles and rebuilds or 
replaces the parts torn down and rebuilt as often 
as once in every seven years, and all except some 
of the harder bone structure is rebuilt as often as 
once in three years. 

Now, ask them the question, "Do the dead 
talk?" and they will say, "No." Then we ask them 
the question, "Do the dead brain cells tell to the 
new incoming particles forming the new brain 
cells, all that has happened during the ten to 
twenty or more changes as would be the case with 
a man of my age, (past 70). Do they tell? We 
think not, yet we plainly remember incidents that 
occurred when we were only five years old, and 
right here is where the scientists have fallen down, 
and are now beginning to realize thev have fallen. 

Let me say right here, the living conscious 
entity, that part of a man that can say, "I think, 
therefore I am," the soul principle, is the Lamb's 
book of life, on which is recorded all our life 
experiences, it is the "I am" that controls the brain 



50 FEARS SPIRITUALISTS TOO CLOSE 

and body; it is that which remembers; it is that 
which lives after the change called death. 

Now, we find the old saying that a woman has 
no soul. Now, I wish to go just one stronger, I wish 
to say that no man has got a soul. What do I 
mean? Simply this, that every man, woman or 
child living in the body, is a conscious living entity, 
and that each one has a physical structure, 
the body, which you leave behind when you pass 
to the great beyond. 

No, the body is not you, it is but the material 
substance through which you manifest on the earth 
plane. 

Paul said: "There is a spiritual body and there 
is a natural body," meaning no doubt, a spiritual 
and a material body. It has been shown by the 
photographic process that Paul was right, the 
spiritual body is a counterpart of the physical or 
material body, and the conscious entity which I 
designate as the soul, acts through the spiritual 
body on the spiritual plane, the same as it acts 
through the material body on the material or earth 
plane. 

He who can read the message inside the sealed 
envelope or the one who can see and describe the 
spirit friends that stand by your side, or she who 
can hear their voices and talk with them, has in 
some way established at least a partial contact 
between the material and the spiritual plane. 

Now, in closing, when the people will drop all 
prejudice and look for the truth, when they will 
accept the principles of the golden rule and live it, 
and will strive to know what they are and what 
they should be, and how best to assist a brother or 
sister, how to make the bad boy a good man, in- 
stead of taking undue advantage of others, or 
taking more than their just dues, and piling up a 
bank account that they or their heirs can never use, 
and by right living, help the laborers in the shop 
and field, who would wish to study and bring us 



TO OLD-TIME RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 51 

something from the great unknown to benefit man 
then we will come nearer to true civilization, 
nearer to a knowledge of the great beyond, nearer 
to the highest, the truest and best that nature's 
great God can give, nearer to the great millenium, 
a heaven on earth. 



Hold Me When the Shadows Lengthen 

When the sun light is receding 

From the hill side and the glen, 
And the clouds are red and golden, 

Will you hold me once again. 
Hold me when the shawdows lengthen, 

And the sun sinks out of sight, 
Only once, once more my darling, 

E'er we say the last good night. 

May the love that's high and holy, 

That has filled our souls each day, 
Still extend it's blessing o'er us 

In the land beyond the way, 
I will surely come to meet you, 

And will hold the gates ajar, 
And will help to guide your life boat, 

To the home where loved ones are. 

— iCHORUS:— 

When the shadows gather o'er me, 

As I pass the great divide, 
Hold me closer, even closer, 

Till I reach the other side, 
Hold me closer, darling, closer, 

When I see the silver moon 
Then I'll know, I soon must leave you, 

But the hour, comes all too soon. 

Music for the above song may be obtained from the Author 



52 

A MOTHER'S VOICE 

I saw a strong man kiss his mother and tears rolled 
down his cheek, 
He said we may not meet again, Oh mother, will 
you speak? 
I wish to hear that voice once more, e'er we forever 
part, 
In future years, in sadest hours, 'twill cheer my 
aching heart. 

Oh, well do I remember still, that voice so soft and 
mild, 
Just as you held me to your heart, when I was 
but a child. 
These words, I seem to hear them oft' sometimes 
I think I can, 
You said I must like my father be, an upright 
honest man. 

And they have been a guide to me in many 
different ways, 
And now I want that voice once more to guide 
my older days. 
And then the mother spoke to him, the tears 
bedimmed her eyes, 
She said, "My son, live nobly, and I'll meet you 
in the skies." 

Your father often calls to me but does not bid me 
come, 
He says I have a work to do, in this, my earthly 
home, 
My lamp is burning feebly now, I think in near by 
day, 
My form will by your fathers lie, in church yard 
o'er the way, 
I see your father often ; and he holds the gates ajar, 
I do not fear the journey now, for it is not very 
far 



A MOTHER'S VOICE 53 

To part with friends in earth life, does sometimes 
make me sad, 
To meet with those in summer land will make 
me doubly glad. 

"And now my son I say to you," be strong, be true, 
be brave, 
And if we meet not in earth life, we will beyond 
the grave." 
And then I saw a coach drive up, the coachman 
calling plain, 
"Come, we must be off at once, or we shall miss 
the train." 

Then the arms of mother and son, were around 
each other thrown, 
With one sweet kiss and parting word, he left 
his mother alone, 
Entered the coach, it rolled away, in evenings 
fading light, 
His mother watched with tear dimmed eyes, 
alone, alone, tonight. 

Her husband gone to higher life, Her son to foreign 
land, 
Her work was done, was ready now, for natures 
stern command, 
It was not long she waited thus, till gates were 
thrown ajar, 
Her life boat sailed o'er the river, to home where 
angels are. 

Her son kept on in foreign land, its liberty to save, 
But oft he heard those parting words, be strong, 
be true, be brave, 
And once, when temper came that way, with low 
deceptive plan, 
He heard these words repeated "be an upright 
honest man." 

He knew his mother spoke to him, he heard those 
words so plain, 
He did not dare to do evil, to think it, caused 
him pain, 



5 4 A MOTHER'S VOICE 

So was the tempter turned aside, the strong man 
went his way, 
Rejoiced that wrong was overcome, and right 
had gained the day, 
He was so true, so kind at home, his wife, and 
children three, 
Were all so happy together, as every home 
should be. 
They each one learned the story, of Mother, that 
I have told, 
They each one prized it higher, than treasures 
of shining gold. 
Their Father, fast declining, the silver was in his 
hair, 
Still oft he heard his mothers voice float in on 
vibrant air. 
One evening just at sunset, the world seemed all 
aglow, 
He said to friends around him "I am ready, now 
to go, 
And oh; this glorious sunset, this flood of golden 
light 
I see beyond the crimson clouds, it is the 
grandest sight, 
I see, I see, my mother dear, with those bright 
smiling eyes. 
She says she comes to meet me, to meet me in the 
skies, 
Dear ones, you have learned my motto, You know 
the story well. 
And now I close my earthly eyes, and bid you 
all, farewell. 
Then all was so still, so silent, that not one sound 
I heard 
Save sobs and moans of kindred, till his mothers 
voice I heard, 
It floated in on evening air, be strong, be true, be 
brave, 
Be noble, be upright and honest, we'll meet 
beyond the grave. 



55 

HAS THE RELIGION OF THE 
PAST BEEN A SUCCESS 

Since Constantine became Emperor of Rome and 
forced on the people the belief in the trinity, and 
plan of redemption adopted by practically all re- 
ligious bodies, the whole religious world has been 
trying to promote the idea of brotherly love and 
obedience to the will of a supposed personal and 
infinite God, which they teach has created and 
rules over all things, with justice, love, and mercy. 

Yet after these fifteen hundred years of effort, 
with its horrid career of religious torture, blood- 
shed and war, these religious and God governed 
nations are in the midst of the most horrible war the 
world has ever known. Each national ruler, a ruler 
by divine right (as claimed) is praying to the same 
God, for victory for his army, praying for God to 
help them send their shot and shell into the bodies 
of the soldiers of the opposing armies, yes, praying 
for blood and murder to fall upon the soldiers of 
their neighbor nations; praying for suffering and 
sorrow, for God to make starving widows and 
orphans. 

Yet the war seems to have been largely for 
conquest, or commercial advantages for the rulers, 
while the common people are forced into the battle 
to lose their lives, and if they escape death, then to 
pay the cost of the war, and shield the rulers. 

Now if there is an all wise, omnipresent and all 
powerful Creator and ruler of the universe, can you 
see the principle of justice and mercy in his acts? 

Through all history it has been the ambition of 
the rulers by divine right to conquer the world. 

They have compelled their people to serve in the 
standing army and navy, and have expended 
millions of money to arm and sustain them, which 
the working people had to pay, and the Kings and 



56 HAS THE RELIGION OF THE PAST BEEN A SUCCESS 

rulers armed to the teeth, became haughty and 
proud, as shown by some of the recorded acts. On 
yonder pole hangs the Kings hat, bow to it as you 
pass or we will punish you. Here we have erected a 
cross, kneel before it or go to eternal torture, here 
we have raised our flag, salute it or we will shoot 
you until you will. If you disobey the orders of the 
ruler you are a traitor, and liable to be hung or 
shot, if you do obey and stand up in battle as a 
target, and are not killed, then you are a patriot, 
and it does not matter to which army you belong. 

Let us see what patriotism means. Patriotism 
means love of your country, yet love often makes 
a mistake ; love often turns to jealousy, love is not 
a safe guide to right doing. Patriotism means 
sectionalism, each patriot stands for his own 
government ruler, although that ruler may be 
wrong. 

Now I would say, is it not time for the world to 
ask for an improved religion and something better 
than the religious governments of the past, some- 
thing to do away with sectionalism and war? 

There has been but little advancement in 
religion or government during the 1500 years past. 
The word "partriotism" sounds grand to the ears 
of the masses, and they are ready to stand up and 
obey the orders of the rulers and battle for them, 
although many times they do not know the cause 
of the war, we feel the word "patriotism" is not the 
highest and best thought. 

Let us try "humanitarianism" in its stead. Love 
thy neighbor as thyself. At least consider every 
man as your brother and every woman as your 
sister. 

Consider their rights to life, and happiness, as 
being equal to yours. 

Yes, equal to the rulers, who stand back at a 
safe distance and through their field glasses watch 
the horror of the battle they have forced their 
subjects into. 



HAS THE RELIGION OF THE PAST BEEN A SUCCESS 57 

Under the principles of humanitarianism, and 
the co-operation of governments there would be no 
need of large standing armies. If a country should 
rebel, all the other countries would become ar- 
bitrators to settle the difficulty, which under 
humanitarian principles would be easily and 
honorably adjusted. 

The religious and patriotic teachings of the past 
and of the present, constantly instill into the minds 
of men the principles of war. 

The boy scouts are being taught war, and made 
to conduct sham battles, until they take pride in if, 
and many would be glad to enter into the real 
battle and shoot to kill. Yet these things are being 
done, under the present religious teachings. Now 
after fifteen hundred years of teaching of war and 
fear, we believe it is time to try a new religion, one 
that is nearer in harmony with the advancement 
made in machinery and agriculture. 

The present Christian religion is away back on 
a par with the time when a forked stick was used 
for a plow, and it is a long way from that condition 
up to the present tractor that turns a dozen 
furrows at a time. 

Yet if we will adopt International Co-operation 
of governments instead of rulers by divine right, 
and the teaching of humanitarians instead of 
instilling into the minds of the young, the principles 
of war, or wholesale murder, then governments 
and the teachings of brotherly love will advance 
more in fifty years than it has in the last fifteen 
hundred years. 

Let the ministers teach what thev know to be 
true, or that which can be proved by scientific 
principles, and not teach the old time theology of 
the past, which tells you that no matter how low 
and wicked a life you have lived, if you only repent 
you will not only be saved, but "there is more joy 
in heaven over one sinner that repents than over 
ninety and nine that had no sins to repent of," 



58 HAS THE RELIGION OF THE PAST BEEN A SUCCESS 

thereby placing a premium on the wicked man who 
will repent at the last moment. 

Let no man teach the principles of fear, fear has 
killed more people than any known disease. Fear 
makes a man weak, fear holds down and makes you 
subject to others. 

In place of standing armies and immense navies 
to support, let the same funds be used to educate 
the illiterate, and to make it possible for those who 
now have to work every possible moment to barely 
live, to have at least a little time for rest and study. 
Educate and elevate the mental condition, and there 
will be no need for war, but we hear it remarked 
that "the world would soon be over run with 
people, and war is essential to prevent it." Those 
that are educated and have time to think, will not 
bring into being the child that cannot be cared for, 
you will find by the records of today, the large 
families are among the ignorant, those who are 
only just a little above the animal. 

And that is one great reason why we should all 
work for the thorough establishment of the Public 
schools, versus the Parochial schools. 

Let us enact laws compelling children of school 
age and under 16 years of age, to attend Public 
school until they graduate from the eighth grade at 
least, teaching them a little Americanism, a little 
of the principles of life and freedom, make them 
a little better than mere animals. 

A comparison. By good authority, it is shown 
that in countries where there are only Parochial 
schools an average of 54 percent of the people over 
ten years of age, can neither read nor write, while 
in countries with only Public schools there is only 
1.7 percent while in the United States with both 
kinds of schools, there is 7.7 percent, that can 
neither read nor write, we also find that in Mexico, 
Spain, Brazil and Guatamala, the rate runs from 
75 to 92 percent, that can neither read nor write. 

Do you wonder that we have wars when the 



HAS THE RELIGION OF THE PAST BEEN A SUCCESS 59 

people are so ignorant? Do you wonder that 
illiterate countries are so often over populated? 
Would not birth control by education, be better 
than raising young men for slaughter? And yet we 
must not forget that the church is combined with 
the money powers, and the money powers must be 
served, even though it does take the strongest, the 
noblest and best, of our young men. Can we not 
change it? 

What shall we do with our donations, shall we 
give it to the Missionary workers to teach the 
theological dogmas, and hold the people in 
ignorance, and subject to the rulers by divine 
right? or shall we place it where it will assist in 
giving the young a little glimpse of the real light, 
the knowledge, the truth, that shall make them 
free. 

Let the rule by divine right of kings and em- 
perors cease, let there be no rule by a Money 
Oligarchy. 

Let there be laws compelling attendance at 
public schools. LET NO ONE VOTE WHO CAN- 
NOT READ AND WRITE. Let there be for every 
nation, a government of the people, by the people 
and for the people, even as Abraham Lincoln said, 
there should be for this country. Let the people 
vote direct for the laws they wish, and not for men 
that can be bought for a price. Let us not disgrace 
our state or nation, by allowing the money powers 
to buy Newberrys for our congress or senate. Let 
us think and reason, let us be men and women. 

Now after trying out the personal God idea and 
rule by divine right, since Constantine's time, 
fifteen hunderd years ago, with so little advance- 
ment, so much war, cruelty and suffering, let us 
try for a comparatively short time of say, fifty or 
one hundred years, the teaching that the Eternal 
Unchangeable, Omnipresent principles inherent in 
nature, Natural law, is the supreme power that 
rules and governs all things in nature, both 



60 HAS THE RELIGION OF THE PAST BEEN A SUCCESS 

material and Spiritual. 

Let us teach "Humanitarian Spiritualism," based 
on a knowledge sustained by the fact, that Life, 
Consciousness, Intelligence and Spirit are Eternal 
principles inherent in nature, and Spirit communion 
and continuity of life are facts, demonstrated by 
the phenomena of nature. 

Let us teach that to make the most of our lives 
here and hereafter, we must live to our highest 
thought and, "Do not unto others that which we 
would not, that others should do unto us." 
(Confucius) 

Must give unto every individual as much of kind- 
ness, friendship and freedom, as we would ask for 
ourselves, must give more of our time and effort 
to benefit humanity, and less to the accumulation 
of unneeded wealth, the God of gold. 

Teach that we must bear our own burdens of sin 
and wrong doing and cannot cast them on the 
shoulders of another. 

That natural law here, or hereafter, will punish 
us for every wrongful act. 

That there is no escape from the punishment for the wrong 
we do, only to correct it, overcome it, outgrow it, in order to 
attain true happiness. 

Teach that, the Soul, consisting of Life, Consciousness, 
Intelligence, Spirit, is the only thing known to man, that can 
of itself, start energy in action and do that which it wills to do. 

Then let our prayers be to the soul, the living 
conscious entity, the God within, and to our Spirit 
friends, and not to an unknown God, an Idol, as it 
were, in opposition to the supreme principles in 
nature. 

If our life has been largely evil, or working 
against the welfare of humanity, accumulating 
immense wealth, by misrepresentation, deception, 
or legal stealing or robbing the honest toiler, or 
seeking to bring war for conquest or fame, then 
wnen we pass the great divide, we come into a 



HAS THE RELIGION OF THE PAST BEEN A SUCCESS 61 

condition of darkness and sorrow, from which we 
cannot BUY our way out, for threre is no money in 
spirit. To some, it seems like ages of wandering in 
darkness, e'er there comes a little ray of light and 
hope, to their darkened benighted soul. 

Then another age, before they can grow out and 
up to what they should have been while in earth 
life. 

This is what Spirit friends will tell you, if you 
will investigate, such also is the punishment 
rendered by natural law. 

While such punishment is not eternal, it cannot 
be forgiven by any one except, it may be, the one 
who has been wronged. The only hope is to correct 
it, over come it, by good works and outgrow it, do 
it now, today while yet in earth life, where it can be 
most easily corrected, overcome, outgrown ; bear- 
ing in mind, that murder is a sin that cannot easily, 
be overcome, it will haunt the soul indefinitely. 

So I say, Awake, oh soul, arise live honestly and 
uprightly striving ever to aid humanity, ever seek- 
ing the light, the truth for only truth can make you 
free. 




When the gates of heaven open, 

None can hear them when they swing, 

But the voice of loving lost ones, 
Often reach us as they sing. 



62 



DON'T GO TO WAR 'TILL YOU 
KNOW WHAT FOR 

Oh, yes there have been rulers 

That wanted all the world; 
Amassed their mighty armies 

With battle flags unfurled. 
They set their soldiers fighting 

In awful, horrid war; 
The men that shot their brothers, 

Did not know what for. 

A hundred million dollars 

Would only be a speck 
Compared with all the billions 

Of battle waste and wreck. 
The burden on the children, 

That's caused by such a war, 
Will make them slaves forever. 

They don't know what for. 

Think of the homeless children, 

And widows of the dead, 
Who now are surely starving, 

Some never can be fed. 
Think of the peaceful worker 

Compelled to go to war, 
And fight the ruler's battles, 

And not know what for. 

Let all our people help us 

Decide when war shall be, 
Vote whether we shall battle 

On foreign land, or sea. 
And let those who vote for it 

Be first to go to war, 
And then we will not have it 

'Till we know what for. 



Don't Go to War 'Till You Know What For 63 

Then rouse ye all, for freedom, 
Free work, free press, free speech. 

Place honor over riches, 

True kindness ever teach. 

Make every man your brother, 
Then there will be no war 

Beneath our starry banner, 
'Till we know what for. 

Chorus: 

Oh, let those do the fighting 

Who really want the war. " 

For if they really want it, 

They should know what fo*. 




Friend is a word that many speak, 
And some know how to use, 

While many fail to understand 
And many more abuse, 



6 4 



INVOCATION 



Oh ye Spirit friends, by and through the bound- 
less source of all things, come unto us, and help us 
to rise above all evil thoughts, or deeds, that our 
souls may progress. 

Oh, give unto us the power to touch the forms of 
those who are ill, or in pain, that they may be well 
and strong. 

Oh, give us the power to touch the hearts of 
those who are jealous hearted, or angry, that they 
may be quieted. 

Oh, teach us how to awaken the souls of those 
now in darkness, that they may receive the better 
light, and rejoice therein. 

Teach us how to touch the souls of the evil doers, 
that they may be guided aright. 

Oh, help us to touch the souls of the fallen, that 
they may be lifted up. 

Help us to touch the hearts of those who con- 
demn the fallen, that they may have mercy and 
charity. 

Oh, give unto us the power to touch the souls of 
the sorrowing that they may be comforted. 

Help us to lift our own souls, up to a higher plain 
of life, that we may assist others. 

And then, for humanities sake, give to us, each 
and all, the power to live high and holy, in peace 
and harmony with all the world for the world is 
our country, humanity, our people, and to be good 
and do good, is our religion. 



65 

THE UNIVERSE GOVERNED BY 
LAW ALONE 

TO THE PROGRESSIVE THINKER 

Under the heading of "Infinite Mind" was the 
statement that, "The marvelous mechanism con- 
trolling the movements of the sun, moon and stars, 
Must Be the reflection of an infinite mind." 

Another writer seems to think that much of the 
happenings on earth are purely the work of chance. 

To me it seems that infinite, eternal law, must 
have been prior to infinite mind. 

Now do not mix the expression "infinite mind" 
with that of "infinite intelligence" for mind 
signifies individuality capable of using intelligence 
or acting intelligently, while "intelligence, capacity 
to know" is a principle in nature, as old as time 
itself. 

Consequently, the principle of intelligence can 
be considered as infinite, being unlimited, bound- 
less. 

Stop and think for a moment, and I think you 
will agree with me, that nothing could have 
existed before time was, and nothing could have 
existed without space, in which to exist. 

Now since there are laws that govern, and one 
might say are a part of time and space, we would 
ask, WHERE WAS THAT CREATIVE MIND, 
prior TO TIME AND SPACE, THAT IT COULD 
HAVE CREATED THEM. 

But some one says that belongs to the infinite or 
divine, and we cannot answer that question. 

Then please to say that you do not know, and do 
not say "it must be, the reflection of infinite mind." 

On the other hand, do not say "it must be the 
work of chance" even in part. 

Let us adhere to our text "Law governs all" 

Let us stop and think once more. No particle of 



66 THE UNIVERSE GOVERNED BY LAW ALONE 

material substance in the universe has ever moved 
or been moved without energy to move it. 

ENERGY IS ALWA1S GOVERNED BY LAW. 
So we ask, how could infinite mind have created 
the universe, or how control it, without the assist- 
ance of energy, on the other hand, if energy did 
exist prior to the creation, then it was not created 
by said infinite mind. 

St. John, first and first, "In the beginning was 
the word, and the word was with God, and the 
word was God, the same was in the beginning with 
God." What does it mean, does anybody know? 

It is largely taken to mean that God spoke, and 
his word brought all things into existance. 

But again I ask, how could the word be spoken, 
even if we admit that the infinite mind did exist, 
without time and space in which to exist, FOR 
EVEN THE THOUGHT, WHICH ALWAYS 
COMES BEFORE THE SPOKEN WORD, RE- 
QUIRES ENERGY, TO SET IT IN ACTION. 

We do not believe in a creation by a personal 
God or infinite mind, for the following reasons. 

First, that the soul seems to be the only thing 
that can of itself, set energy in action. 

Second, energy must exist, else the soul could 
not set it in action. 

Third, to be active, energy must have something 
to act upon. 

So we say, energy is an infinite, eternal principle 
in nature, co-eternal with time and space, and must 
have existed prior to the spoken word, it is always 
active when any substance moves of whatever 
nature it may be. 

Now as we can find no place where energy is 
acting, except where it is acting on material sub- 
stance, or some prime principle in nature, we con- 
clude that material substance and the prime 
principles of nature are co-eternal with time and 
space. 

They could not have bee?i created by infinite mind, a personal 



THE UNIVERSE GOVERNED BY LAW ALONE 67 

God, for he could not even speak the word, or think the thought, 
without energy, ?ieither cotdd energy act without something to 
act upon. 

Hence we believe that all the substance of the 
universe, and all the laws of nature, are co-eternal 
with time and space, and could not have been 
created by a God that existed before time and space 
was. 

Of such a time and condition we cannot con- 
ceive, for if such a condition did ever exist, then 
in the place of the universe, there must have been 
absolutely nothing, not even space. 

Now we find energy may be active, or it may lie 
dormant as in the lump of coal, but when we sift 
things right down to basic principles, we find that 
heat, electricity and energy, are practically one 
and the same thing, only in different form, for 
either one of these will generate the other two. 

They are principles in nature, even as the laws 
of gravity, centrifugal force, or mathematics, are 
principles in nature. 

Notice, I use the word "principle" instead of 
"law" for people are so easily confused by the fact 
that the word "law" is used in connection with 
man made rules, that are called "law" while they 
are only rules that can easily be broken or changed 
while "natural law" is eternal, unchangeable, 
omnipresent and being unlimited, boundless, 'we 
call it infinite. 

Now if infinite mind has created all things, in- 
cluding these eternal, unchangeable laws of prin- 
ciples, he has therefore finished his work. 

Yes, the minute he has made said laws, which 
are inherent in nature itself , everywhere, gov- 
erning all things, that minute, his work was com- 
pleted, for the law is immutable, unchangeable, 
yesterday, today and forever the same. 

If these infinite laws were changeable, then 
every thing would at once be running by chance, 
which we know it is not, hence we say law governs 



68 THE UNIVERSE GOVERNED BY LAW ALONE 

all. 

If the idea of a God, a Devil, and Chance, were 
entirely obliterated from the minds of the people 
every where, and man made to understand that 
unchangeable law rules and governs every thing 
in nature there would undoubtedly be a better 
chance for advancement, than there is at the 
present time, or ever has been, at least since the 
beginning of the Christian era. 

Now do not think any longer, that Infinite mind, 
a personal God, is ruling this universe, for you can 
find nothing in nature that is not governed by law, 
not even your own belief, for your belief is always 
according to the evidence that is brought to bear, 
in other words you cannot believe a thing against 
your will, or when the positive evidence tells you 
it is not true, in other words it will always require 
evidence, to cause you to change your mind. 

No machine that man has ever designed or built, 
is anything more than a mechanism applying the 
eternal, unchangeable principles of nature to pro- 
duce the desired results. 

Any mechanical appliance must be in harmony 
with natural law, or it will not work. 

Any religious belief or teaching, must be in har- 
mony with natural law, to be true. 

Spiritualism is the only religious teaching of 
which I chance to know, that proves itself to be 
true, by harmony with, and demonstrations under 
natural law. 

Now regarding chance, I can see no such thing 
as chance in nature at any point or place. 

The eternal unchangeable laws are constantly 
acting, and the fact that nothing can move or be 
moved without energy to move it, is positive evi- 
dence to me, that the mountain slide, the falling 
meteor, the disintegration of the rocks, are all the 
result of the action of natural law. 

The idiot or the master mind, the sick or the 
well, the weak or the strong, are not the result of 



THE UNIVERSE GOVERNED BY LAW ALONE 69 

chance, but each and all are the result of con- 
ditions, acting under natural law, for law governs 
all. 



I LEARNED 
I long ago learned that a truly wise man, 

Will not make belief, a base for his plan, 
But seek for a fact, on which he can rear 

His temple of truth, to knowledge most dear. 



7o 

RIGHT IS ALWAYS RIGHT 

Written to one who was just beginning to catch 
a little of the light from the great beyond. 

So it is, when a soul is touched by the sweet har- 
mony of even a partial knowledge of the wonder- 
ful, Infinite principle and the sweet spirit commun- 
ion, it comes into such harmonious conditions and 
receives so much of the great, high and holy love, 
That — 

They can read from natures book 

The things that are to be, 
They catch the chords of natures song 
And rhythm so pure and free. 

It lifts their soul above the goal 

That mortal man has set, 
To catch the thought the angels wrought 

The sweetest thoughts we get. 

So let us all heed natures call 
Through laws supremely grand, 

And conquer might, by love of right, 
'Till peace reigns o'er the land. 

To then arise, beyond the skies 

By natures high decree, 
And gain the love of those above, 

Our souls for ever free. 

That all the world, with thoughts unfurled 
Like sunshine pure and bright, 

May teach to man through natures plan 
That RIGHT, IS ALWAYS RIGHT. 



SHAKEN IN THE SIEVE 
OF REASON 

As a reader of the Spiritual and Liberal papers, 
I have noticed that there are many so-called liberal 
writers who still hold to the idea of a personal God 
and a personal Devil ; that the Bible is the infallible 
word of God and that God, by his goodness and 
intelligence, rules and governs the universe. And 
there are not a few who seemingly deny the 
universal laws of nature, claiming that Law implies 
a predestined rule of action, and that the rigid 
logic of evolution, as demonstrated in differentiated 
phenomena, proves exactly the reverse of fixed law. 
Some claim that the Law idea is a dogma, which is 
a consequent necessity of the dogma of the God 
idea. 

Now I would like to put these into the sieve of 
reason, and have the reader, by earnest thought, 
help me to shake them a few moments. 

As we understand it, the Bible God is the God 
referred to, who is represented as a personality, 
all-wise, omnipresent, the creator and ruler of the 
universe. 

Let us see. Read Gensis 1:1. "In the beginning 
God created the heaven and the earth." In the 
beginning? Stop a moment and think. When was 
the beginning? Can you think of a time or place 
when neither time nor space was? A time before 
time was? A space when there was no space? It is 
utterly impossible. It could not have been. Knowing 
there never was such a state of things, there never 
could have been a beginning. So we reason that if 
time and space are now, they always have been, 
hence they were not created by God in the begin- 
ning. 

On the other hand, IF conditions ever were such 
that time and space did not exist, then there was no 
God, and no creater, as there could have been no 



72 SHAKEN IN THE SIEVE OF REASON 

space for him to occupy, and no time, in which he 
could have had an existence — hence, no time or 
place in which to create. This line of reasoning, 
forces us to accept the fact that time and space 
were without beginning and will be without end. 

Since science has practically demonstrated that no 
particle of matter can be annihilated, and also that 
something cannot be made out of nothing, we have 
entirely given up the idea of creation, or creator, 
and fully believe that all things that are, have 
always existed in some form. 

Now if all these things did exist without a God 
to create and govern them, by his intelligence, and 
if there is no such thing as Law then all things 
must be running by chance. But after careful con- 
sideration, I do not think any one would admit that 
our planetary system and our nicely adjusted 
natural phenomena are run by chance. 

No, indeed, we believe that law governs all. We 
look at in this way. If there is a law that is immut- 
able and unchangeable, it has always been a Law, 
and was not made by a God of creation before time 
and space were. But we believe that Law, Spirit, 
Matter, are Co-eternal with time and space. 

We believe Law governs, because, wherever man 
has delved into the hidden mysteries of nature, he 
has invariably found some principle underlying 
each and every phenomenon of nature, which 
principle seems to be always present when that 
phenomenon occurs; this underlying principle or 
force is what man calls law. By a knowledge of 
these laws he is able to predict the time at which 
eclipses will occur, eomets appear, and a thousand 
other things equally as wonderful. 

We have always found God, and man of God, in 
direct opposition to man's gaining a knowledge of 
law, even as far back as the Garden of Eden, where 
the book shows that God told a falsehood, and 
afterwards admitted that the Devil told the truth. 
And taking into consideration the many errors and 



SHAKEN IN THE SIEVE OF REASON 73 

falsehoods contained in the Bible, which book is all 
the authority we have that there ever was a God, 
and taking these in connection with the fact that 
nature itself makes the denial we assert that there 
never was and is not now a personal God, as set 
forth in the Bible. 

Now let us see if there is a chance for evolution 
under fixed law. We think there is. True, we have 
laws seemingly that other laws do not affect, as no 
two particles of matter can occupy the same space 
at the same time. Anything could not exist without 
time and space in which to exist; two halves of 
any substance are always equal to the whole 
substance, etc. 

If all the laws of nature were of this class, it 
might seem possible that evolution could not exist 
under fixed law, and yet the first law upon which 
I build my theory of evolution, is the law that com- 
pels nature to produce differentiated phenomena, 
by making it impossible for any two particles of 
matter to occupy the same space at the same time, 
as in case of the two leaves of a tree , or two blades 
of grass no two of which are alike, yet they receive 
sustenance from the earth in the same manner, 
have the same root or stem, but they must occupy 
different positions in space as the law compels them 
to do; hence, they are acted upon differently by 
the rain, dew, air, sunlight, etc. A different ray of 
light, striking at a different angle, would have a 
different effect and produce a different result; and 
as each cycle of growth and decay refines and en- 
riches the soul, making each succeeding growth 
more vigorous and perfect, it would surely indicate 
evolution under fixed law. 

HERE IS A PROPOSITION 

A law may be in constant operation, yet that law 
may be overcome by other laws. If this be true, it 
would seem plausible to suppose that the united 
action of the laws of nature, in perfect harmony 
with the great law of cause and effect , would not 



74 SHAKEN IN THE SIEVE OF REASON 

only produce the wonderful phenomena of growth 
and decay, but would tend toward a constant re- 
finement, higher development and perfection in 
nature, which we term evolution. 

Then it remains for me to show to my readers 
that such conditions do exist. Knowing that all 
forces in nature conform to laws governing them. 
I sometimes use the word force, instead of law, as 
it is more convenient to do so. While man has dis- 
covered many laws, yet many of them are not fully 
understood, and reason tells us there are very many 
more, of which man, as yet, has not the faintest 
idea. 

Yet, with our limited knowledge, we have learn- 
ed the fact that many times certain laws are in 
operation without perceptible effect, as in the case 
of the rapidly revolving wheel, centrifugal force 
is constantly pulling at the wheel, in just pro- 
portion to its weight and speed; but the wheel, by 
the laws of cohesion and adhesion, being strong 
enough to stand the strain, we do not see the effect 
of the centrifugal force. 

Let the boy tie a string to his ball and swing it 
rapidly in a circle; the pull on the string will 
demonstrate the action of this law, as also does the 
bursting of flywheels occasionally. 

Again, we see that in quantities water seeks its 
own level by the action of the force of gravity, 
yet we know that same law within each individual 
drop would form it into a small globe. Try it by 
letting a drop fall on an oiled paper, then a drop 
on unoiled paper, and notice that one remains a 
globe, while the other, by the same law of 
attraction, aided by the capillary action of the un- 
oiled paper, flattens and is absorbed by the paper. 
We think these two illustrations will suffice to sub- 
stantiate our proposition. 

Now we find the laws of nature so nicely and 
accurately adjusted, that we are able to make very 
perfect calculations therefrom, and that those 



SHAKEN IN THE SIEVE OF REASON 75 

calculations once accurately made, are always 
found correct. Therefore we conclude that there are 
unchangeable laws, and we believe that, were it 
not for a knowledge of those laws, our high 
standard of mechanical and intellectual ability 
could not have been. This proves to me not only that 
evolution is possible under fixed law, but that law is 
the real underlying principle that forces the growth 
and fuller development of perfect evolution. 



Oh may ye see as angels saw 

The words of God that cannot lie, 

And know by his eternal law; 
The souls of men can never die. 



7 6 



LIFE 

O, life what art thou, 

Doth any mortal know? 
Yet thou art known on every hand 

Where mortal man can go. 

Throughout all the universe, 

In every spot and place, 
In ocean grand or desert land 

Thy mystic power we trace. 

E'en in the drop of water 
Thy myriad forms we find, 

And in the fragrant air we breathe 
Are hosts of many a kind. 

Yet man, whom thou hast given 
A wondrous power to know, 

Can tell us naught of what thou art 
Or whence you come or go. 

With microscope and lancet 

He would catch thee e'er ye flee, 

He can but find thy mystic power, 
Thou art forever free. 

The soul, that conscious part of man. 

The God within that goes 
Adown the mystic aisles of time, 

Still reasons, thinks and knows. 

Thou art the ceasless principle, 
Not action, form or breath 

Thou hast, and shall forever be, 
To thee, there is no death. 



77 

IF CREATED WHEN 

If, you should play as a leader, 

On the field of progressions great play, 

Then make what you teach, true to nature, 
No matter what others may say. 

Undoubtedly the reader knows the generally 
accepted teaching or story of creation as recorded 
in the Bible. 

You also recognize the fact that this story of 
creation and the fall of man, so called, is the found- 
ation on which the whole Christian Religion is 
based, that is, without a God the creator and the 
original sin, there would be no call for good men to 
repent, no vicarious atonement. 

Of course some might say we should repent for 
our wrong doings, but that is not the demand of the 
Christian Religions, for the church teaches, the 
entire plan of redemption is based on Adam's sin. 

Yes, it is for Adam's sin we must repent, although 
Adam did not know good from evil. 

See Genesis 11. 17th. God said, "But of the tree 
of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat, 
for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt 
surely die." 

Genesis IV. 5. "And the serpent said unto the 
woman, ye shall not surely die, for God doth know 
that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall 
be opened, and ye shall be as Gods, knowing good 
and evil." 

This, God admitted, after Adam had partaken of 
the forbiden fruit, see Genesis, 3: 22, "and the 
Lord God said. Behold the manis become as one of 
us, to know good and evil." 

Now be careful, be candid, and ask your self, 
who told the truth, and who told the falsehood. 

Yet the Christian Religion tells us that the 
millions upon millons of earths people are to be 
ETERNALLY punished because Adam and Eve dis- 



78 IF CREATED WHEN 

obeyed Gods order, although as God admitted, they 
did not know good and evil, did not know they 
were doing wrong. God also admitted they did not 
die, when he gave them punishment all the days of 
their lives. 

So the question has arisen, is such an eternal 
punishment just, would you consider such a 
punishment, an act worthy of an infinite, all wise, 
all powerful and merciful God? would you? 

Can you find in the largest city a father or 
mother who would meet out to a child such 
ETERNAL punishment, if they could, no matter 
how bad their child might be, but we must not for- 
get that men and women, are not all wise or all 
powerful, and could not give eternal punishment if 
they would, then do you think that an all wise and 
all powerful God, would do such a thing? 

Is God a merciful, loving, kind and just Father, 
when he places eternal punishment on all the 
millions upon millions of earths people, just because 
poor old Adam and Eve disobeyed his order, not 
knowing it was wrong? 

Go slow, think of it, was not such an act worse, 
more sinful, more inhuman, than any act man could 
possibly commit, man being only a finite being? 

Now we must not forget that approximately two 
thirds of the earths people are not Christians, they 
are largely Pagans, Mohammedans, Brahmans, 
Shintoists, followers of Confucius, mostly people 
who have never heard of the teachings of the 
Christians to any considerable extent. Then we 
must not forget that of the so called Christian 
countries, which constitute the other third of earths 
people, are not all Christians. It seems that at least 
one half those who can read and write in these 
Christian countries are not Christians, because the 
God that is said to be the author of the Bible teach- 
ings, failed to put evidence enough in his work, to 
convince them, when they use their reasoning power 
which it is said "is a God given principle" which 
reasoning power is all that makes man above a 



IF CREATED WHEN 79 

brute. 

Now would it not be a pretty hard hearted, un- 
merciful God, that would punish throughout the 
endless ages of time, all those who have not any 
knowledge of his teachings, all those to whom he 
has given power of reason without giving them 
evidence sufficient to convince them that his teach- 
ings are true? 

Does not the blame rest on God himself, more 
than on the man whose reason tells him that the 
teachings are unjust and false? 

Put all these in your thinking cap and steep 
them, then swallow it if you can, in other words, 
think and reason. 

My God, the Infinite, Eternal, Unchangeable, 
Omnipresent principles inherent in nature, could 
not commit such an injustice towards humanity. 

So I do not believe an infinite personal God, had 
any thing to do with the creation of this old earth, 
or the creation of man as specified in the Bible, 
neither do I believe in the so called fall of man, or 
the vicarious atonement. 

If the Bible be true, the creation of the universe 
and all it contains, occurred only a few thousand 
years ago. 

The genealogy as given in the fifth chapter of 
Genesis makes it only 4700 years from Adam to 
Abraham, and the encyclopediae says Abraham 
lived 175 years and died about 1800 before 
Christ, which would make the creation less than 
eight thousand years ago. 

Now if you go back to the long ago past, and see 
conditions through the eyes of the Geologist, you 
would find that this old earth has existed, and has 
been undergoing the processes of evolution and 
refinement for millions of years. 

You would probably conclude that there was a 
time when this earth was a moulton mass of 
materials, in which case you would find that the 
water formed by the combustion of Oxygen and 



8o IF CREATED WHEN 

Hydrogen gasses, was driven off by the intense 
heat as steam, and out in the outer space the intense 
cold condensed it to water, which fell as rain, 
towards the earth, until the intense heat again 
turned it to steam, to be again condensed, which 
process continued until the earth was cool enough 
so the rain could actually come in contact with some 
parts of it, and this process repeated until the earth 
was cool enough so the water could remain in 
contact with it, in places, and so vegetable life 
could exist. 

Perhaps lichens or mosses were about the first 
to appear on the rocks, a few thousand million 
years ago. However Geologists tell us that animal 
life first appeared in the inland water, similar to 
what seems to originate in stagnant pools today. 

The elements acting on the rocks, and the 
vegetable growth, gradually wore away the rocks 
until it produced soil, in which larger vegetable 
growth could thrive. 

Then during the millions of years that followed, 
the humidity of the atmosphere, the warmth of the 
earth, and the suns warm rays, caused immense 
growth, which in time matured and fell to decay, 
taking with it the heat it had absorbed from the 
sun during its growth, the heat stored in the solids 
of the plants or trees. 

Then by and through the processes in the great 
laboratory of nature, it finally became transformed 
into coal, which we are using today for power, heat 
and light. 

Yes, that coal contains the condensed sunshine, 
of the ages past, and to night we are reading and 
working by the sunlight of Millions of years ago. 

Chambers Encyclopaedia says, that in the Edin- 
burg district, the coal is in strata or layers 
amounting in all to 204 ft, in thickness, counting 
only layers of six inches or more, and these layers 
of coal are separated by layers of Sand Stone, Lime 
Stone, Shale etc, and the coal is some of it as low 



IF CREATED WHEN 81 

down as 6300 feet, so it is obvious that these layers 
of coal were formed at different periods of time. 

Now let us turn back to the remote past and 
notice just a few points regarding the animal king- 
dom. 

Geologists tell us that they find, during the 
pliocene age, that is, when the **ocks were in a 
plastic state, large animals passed over them 
leaving their tracks, and also the bones of many 
animals of that age, are found imbeded in the rock. 

Now those animals certainly existed prior to the 
everlasting hills, for those rocks containing their 
tracks and their bones, had become solid, and later 
were thrown up by volcanic action forming our 
great mountain ranges. 

So we see that Animal life has existed millions 
of years prior to the Bible history of creation. 

Yes in these mountains as well as in the coal, 
limestone, and sandstone, many thousand feet 
below the surface, are found fossils of animals, 
many of which we have no record of except those 
fossils. Geologists tell us that the oldest form of 
animal life that they have been able to trace, is 
that of a serpent, and from that successive steps 
in the development of animals occurred, until we 
reach the age of man. 

Right here I wish to refer to the scientifically 
established fact, that the human embryo first 
assumes the form of a serpent, and developes, step 
bv step, representing much of the animal kingdom, 
all the way up to man. This would certainly indicate 
that man was an evolution from the lower animal 
kingdom as per, the Darwinian theory, and was 
not an independent special creation, but was evolved 
from a lower order of life, and was not necessarily 
an off-spring from any known animal. 

One more Geological reference, from the 
Cvclopaedia of Science where Archibald Geikie, 
the Geologists, refering to Pentland Firth and to 
Ireland and Scotland and to the Old Man of Hoy, 



S2 IF CREATED WHEN 

which is a name given to a sand stone rock, whose 
base is washed on three sides by the ocean waves, 
He says it is 600 feet high with perpendicular sides 
stands on a rock similar to what is known as the 
Caithnes Flag Stone, which at this point had been 
broken up by volcanic action leaving an inclined 
and uneven broken surface over which the lava 
has flown. This lower rock it seems had at one time 
been in a plastic state for it contains scales, bones 
and teeth, of fishes of a long gone age, as also does 
the sand stone above the lava base. 

Now regarding the story of the Flood and the 
Ark. 

Eminent Naturalists tell us that from the number 
of animals now living, there must have been some- 
thing like 885,000 animals in the ark which would 
be 56 for every square yard of standing room, aside 
from birds, fishes and insects, without which it 
would have been packed absolutely solid before 
taking in a single pound of food. Much less load 
would have sunk the ark, and we take into consider- 
ation no animal larger than the elephant, however 
Geology proves that long ago before man had any 
record, or even tradition of them there were many 
monster animals on earth, so I do not believe this 
story of the Flood and Ark. 

However practically speaking, the people of all 
countries have traditions of something similar to 
the story of the flood, which has much weight as 
evidence that some great event, did occur in the 
long ago past, which might have been caused by 
volcanic action or great earthquake, which caused 
the great chains of elevations we call mountains, 
or some other great action caused by the cooling and 
contraction of the solids of earth, the cause we 
cannot tell. 

At the Labare Asphalt beds near Los Angeles, 
trapped in the mire of the Asphalt, which acted on 
the monster animals similar to the action of sticky 
fly paper on flies. In this Asphalt bed have been 



IF CREATED WHEN 83 

found 120 or more skeletons of different species 
of animals and birds giving a record of at least a 
large portion of the animal life of that region in 
the long ago past, animals that probably lived 
a million years ago, whose skeletons were found 
intact in natures queer preservative. 

Down beneath the skeletons of the monster 
prehistoric animals, was found the skeleton of a 
woman, these facts, with many others equally as 
wonderful, prove that man and the universe was 
not created about eight thousand years ago, but 
existed in the long ago past, as scientific investiga- 
tion has thoroughly demonstrated. 

Considering the overwhelming evidence recorded 
in old mother earth, and the lack of any authentic 
record in the Bible history of creation, I have asked 
the question, "If Created when" but without hope 
of its being solved as to date, and I firmly believe 
that all things have existed in some form, since 
time and space have been, of which we can con- 
ceive of no beginning and no ending. 



8 4 



AS EVER 

"As ever," is a sentence 

Whose meaning has a range, 
From almost a non entity, 

To power most wondrous strange, 
For us to tell its meaning 

For all on whom it shines 
We cannot do it, sir, 

Lest you read between the lines. 

You know so many use it, 

In careless thoughtless way, 
Not thinking even once, 

What thought it may convey, 
Not thinking that perchance 

If angry in the past, 
It would convey the thought 

It would forever last 

Or if you forge a link 

In friendships golden chain 
The meaning then conveyed 

Would be most truly plain, 
Or if, perchance, it's love 

That plays the silent part 
'Tis then, as ever yours 

More firmly binds the heart 

But whatsoever the thought 

The sentence doth convey 
One thing is doubly sure, 

It meaneth "constancy," 
In friendship, or in love 

In business, honor, hate, 
It means without a change 

E'en to the present date. 



AS EVER 85 

Example No. 1 
I've made a hundred thousand 

In a very easy way, 
By making unjust prices 

That you were forced to pay, 
And while I have no love 

For any working man 
I am as ever yours, 

To consumate my plan. 

Example No. 2 
You know we once were friends 

In days of long ago, 
Whene'er our eyes would meet 

My heart would flutter so, 
But time has brought a change, 

Since those happy, happy hours, 
We both have older grown, 

Still I am as ever yours. 




Of all the endless universe 
That Nature does control, 

Love and law its God is, 
And thought the soul. 



86 

The Truth Shall Make You Free 

First let me say that any religious teaching to be 
true, must be in harmony with the eternal un- 
changeable laws of nature. 

Must be in harmony with science, for real 
science is nothing more than an understanding of 
the principles of nature pertaining to any certain 
feature of nature. 

Perhaps there is no branch of science so well 
understood by the masses of the people, as the 
science of numbers. We do not accept the Roman 
Notation as being true because it was established 
by the Romans, neither do we accept the Arabic 
notation simply because it was established by the 
Hindoos of India, in the long ago past. We do not 
accept it because any great man or collection of 
men have said it is true, but we do accept it 
because it is based on the unchangeable, omni- 
present principles in nature, that science has 
brought to our understanding. 

We say two and two equal four, not because man 
has said it is so, but because it is in harmony with 
nature. 

Speaking of law, I do not mean a man made 
rule, such as are supposed to govern the people, 
what I do mean by "law" is, one or more of the 
infinite, eternal, omnipresent, unchangeable prin- 
ciples inherent in nature, that are always acting, 
each in its proper sphere, which laws govern and 
control all things, many of which laws, man has 
not yet discovered. 

To illustrate, if you throw a ball into the air, 
your conscious entity, your soul, sets in action the 
great principle of energy, which is transmitted 
through your brain to your muscles, and by the 
energy stored in them, the ball is thrown high in 
the air, but we see it going slower and slower, till 
finally it stops rising and begins to fall, why did it 
not keep on going? First, because of the resistance 



THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 87 

of the air, and second — because the great principle 
of Gravity, was constantly holding it backward. 
Why did it fall? Because the eternal, unchange- 
able, omnipresent law of gravity which is energy 
in action, was constantly acting on the ball and 
pulling it back to earth. 

So we find this law of gravity is not only eternal 
but it is always and everywhere acting. 

I have said Mathematics is based on unchange- 
able law, if it were not so, the law might change at 
any moment, and then two and two would not 
equal four. 

Now we find that every mechanical invention, 
as the Telegraph, Telephone, the Steam Engine, 
Gas Engine, Dynamo, Electric Lights, printing 
Press, and thousands of other things, are but 
accidental, or scientific discoveries of mechanism, 
by which the eternal laws of nature are brought 
into use to accomplish certain results, the same can 
be said of the great chemical discoveries. 

Now I would ask, why should we accept the 
religious teachings of the long ago past, which are 
absolutely contrary to the unchangeable laws of 
nature, contrary to the phenomena of nature, as 
demonstrated by science. 

I repeat "The truth shall make you free" 

So as a Spirit, an 1 as Spiritual isLs. we are ail 
seeking the truth, we are seeking for facts, on 
which to base our — shall I say "Belief in Spirit- 
ualism"? No. For when we find a Spirit phenome- 
non in nature, or under natural law, a fact that has 
been and can be, thoroughly demonstr ted, then we 
have a foundation, on which to base our statement, 
a truth which carries us beyond the field of belief, 
into the grand field of absolute knowledge. 

Yes, by these facts, by this phenomena, which 
is in harmony with eternal natural law, and which 
can be thoroughly demonstrated, we are able to 
say we know. Know that we shall live after the 
change called death, because our lost loved ones 



88 THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 

live, and can and do communicate with us. 

But you ask, have we any record, of spirit 
phenomena in the past? 

Yes, we might refer you to King Saul and the 
woman of Endor, NOT WITCH of Endor, for the 
text of the Bible which is supposed to be inspired 
writing, does not say witch, the word "witch" is 
only in the chapter headings, placed there by 
bigoted men. 

In this case the Bible says, "Samuel appeared 
unto Saul," and told him what would happen to 
him and his sons, which came true as Samuel said. 

Now what are we going to do with this, if the 
Bible is true then Samuel did appear, if he did not 
appear, then the Bible is false, if he did appear as 
stated, then it was natural, spiritual phenomenon, 
and certainly occurred under, and in harmony with 
the laws of nature, as the infinite, eternal unchange- 
able omnipresent laws of nature are, yesterday, to- 
day and forever the same, and there is but one con- 
clusion to come to, and that is, that under like 
conditions, like phenomena could occur today. 

We would refer to Christ on the mount where 
Christ was transfigured and Moses and Elias were 
talking with him. Now Christ was not a God, but a 
man, according to his own words, as reported by 
Sts. Matthew, Mark and Luke, yet he was a great 
Medium. He chose three of his disciples and sought 
the quiet, the grandeur, and retirement of the 
mountain heights, for this seance. This was 
the ideal condition for a seance for Spirit commun- 
ion, a condition impossible for most Mediums to 
secure, and yet Spiritualists are ridiculed for re- 
quiring conditions suitable for spirit phenomena to 
occur. 

Now this seance consisted of Transfiguration or, 
possibly Materialization, either of which phenom- 
ena occur today. 

I would call your attention to Saul of Tarsus on 
his way to Damascus, he saw a great light and 



THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 89 

heard a voice of a spirit speaking to him, I refer to 
this first, as being a clairvoyant vision, and second 
as a case of clairaudience clear hearing, and I wish 
you to notice carefully just the words Saul used in 
his reply to the spirit. It is evident Saul did not 
know who the Spirit was ,for he said "Who art thou 
lord". Now I wish to ask a favor of you the reader, 
it is this, when reading the Bible you come to the 
word "lord" read it over again using the word 
"Spirit" and see if you do not get a broader and 
better light on the subject, for in most cases if not 
all, the word "lord" as used in the Bible, means 
Spirit. 

One more case, that of John the Revalator, who 
saw a great vision and fell down to worship at the 
feet of the Angel that showed him these things, 
and the Angel said unto him "see that you do it not 
for I am of thy fellow servants, and thy brethren, 
the prophets," 

In this case there was both Clairaudience, and 
Clairvoyance. Now all these things occurred if the 
Bible is true, and if they did occur, they could 
occur today under like circumstances, under, and 
in harmony with the same eternal unchangeable 
laws, under which they then occurred. 

I have said "the truth shall make you free" 

I now wish to point out to you something of what 
the truth is that shall make you free. 

I shall not ask you to accept as true any state- 
ment made by any man, whether that man be one 
of the sixteen crucified saviors, a great and noble 
statesman, or divine, the so called infallible Pope 
of Rome, or Bill the Kaiser. 

Some of these may be grand good and noble 
men, teaching what they deem to be the truth, to 
the best of their ability, while some of them may 
know within their own consciousness, that they are 
teaching falsely. 

I shall not ask you to take my word for truth, for 
I to, may be mistaken, but what I want you to do is 



90 THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 

to investigate, study the phenomena of nature, and 
know for your self, what the truth is, for the most 
logical writing or lectures will not appeal to you, as 
will the actual phenomena, under conditions that 
you know deception could not occur. 

Spiritulists claim they can and do, communicate 
with the so called dead. Thousands of noble men, 
scientists and thinkers, tell us that Spirit commun- 
ion is a fact, that has been demonstrated to them 
in many ways. Such men as Sir William Crokes, Sir 
Oliver Lodge, A. Canon Doyle, William James, 
Camille Flamarion, the great Astronomer, Wm 
Stead, former editor of the Magazine "Light of 
London" England, and J Minot Savage of the 
Brooklyn Tabernacle, and I might mention many 
more. 

However all that such men might say to you, 
would not appeal to you with the force you would 
get by seeing and carefully investigating the phe- 
nomena itself. Although these men have given the 
phenomena years of careful study, and give a true 
record of such phenomena as they know to be true, 
but to you it is only a record, like other records of 
the past. What you want is the phenomena, the 
facts themselves, to make you know. To illustrate, 
down at Hydesville New York, in the year 1848, 
three little girls at play, noticed peculiar raps, in 
their presence, some times the raps would be on the 
floor, the ceiling, the wall, or on the table or chairs, 
and the girls found that when they would ask the 
raps to come on any certain place they would come 
there, and it was not long until they formed a code 
by which questions could be answered by yes or no, 
or dont know, and one day one of the little girls 
called Mamma, Mamma, it can talk, and the raps 
have been talking ever since. It was soon found 
that by the raps messages were spelled out, by re- 
peating the alphabet, as a rap would be given 
when the proper letter was pronounced, and by 
this method although rather slow, many fine 



THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 91 

messages were spelled out. It was found that these 
raps at Hydesville were made by the spirit of a 
pedlar that had been killed years before, and 
buried in the cellar of the house where the little 
girls then lived. The bones were exhumed and given 
a decent burial, but the raps have never ceased to 
be. This was the origin of so called "Modern 
Spiritualism." 

It was a fact, a truth, that has startled the world, 
and there are Mediums and Spiritualists in every 
civilized country today, and Spiritualism is growing 
more rapidly today than any other religion, has 
ever grown, if it may be called a religion. 

You ask why did it not appear earlier? We 
answer, because the world had been passing 
through the dark ages, for a thousand years, since 
Constantine became Emperor of Rome, and not a 
country on earth was liberal enough to allow the 
raps or other communications, and religious 
bigotry was such, that even in this country, so 
called Witches and Quakers were hung as heretics. 
Not until the grand old Stars and Stripes waved 
over these free and United States of America, and 
the constitution of the United States was establish- 
ed, in which by the untiring efforts of that grand 
liberal thinker Thomas Paine, was incorporated 
that clause, giving us the right to worship God 
according to the dictates of our own conscience. 

Not until then I say, was there a country liberal 
enough and free enough from the rule of the 
bigoted priesthood, to allow Spiritualism to 
exist, and even today, in this United States, 
Mediums are being persecuted by the bigots of the 
day, and servants of the Pope. Now bear in mind 
there are so called Mediums that are false, are 
money sharks. 

Now friends, these little raps often occur in the 
presence of some true Mediums, and they would 
bring to you evidence to prove to you that Spirit 
life and communion are a fact. 



92 THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 

When a lost loved one raps out a message telling 
you something that absolutely no one knew, not 
even yourself, and you investigate later and find 
that it was true, and when similar messages are 
given time after time, regarding other things, then 
you are beginning to get the lacts, the truth, you 
are already passing beyond the field of belief, for 
you are rapidly coming to know. And when lost 
loved ones tell you they still live and are happy, 
and because they live, you to shall live, then you 
are just beginning to get the real facts, the truth 
that shall make you free. 

You will then understand that the "great 
fiction" the plan of eternal damnation, is not in 
harmony with the eternal, unchangeable principles 
of nature, you will also understand that you are 
just what you make yourself, and that no belief, in 
false teachings, or any amount of repentance, will 
allow you to cast your burden of sin on the 
shoulders of another. When you come to know this 
you will constantly be trying to live in harmony 
with the Infinite principles of nature. 

You will then try to live to your highest and best, 
will try to live above evil doing, and should you 
make a mistake you will be sorry for it, you may 
repent of the fact that you were unable to avoid 
the mistake, but you cannot throw the burden of 
the wrong on the shoulders of another, but you will 
try to repair the wrong, you will try to be more 
careful, that other mistakes do not occur, you will 
study the principles of Justice, Right and Brotherly 
love. 

Yes, when you have had the messages, seen and 
studied the phenomena and philosophy, and it has 
been demonstrated so you know it to be true; then 
you will try to live the life that spirits and Spirit- 
ualism teach, and when you do, you will begin to 
know the truth that shall make you free. Free from 
the extreme sorrow, sadness, and fear, of the un- 
certainty of the great hereafter- free from the fear 



THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 93 

of an eternal damnation for wrongs you have not 
committed, wrongs of some other one; free from 
the thought that an allwise and all powerful God, 
the creator of all things both good and evil, has 
committed such an awful sin, as to eternally damn, 
and torture any living thing, any living soul, 
through all the ages of eternity, as punishment for 
a so called sin, done by some other one in the long 
ago past, and done in ignorance, not knowing good 
from evil, and under temptation that was placed 
before them by that self same God, the God that 
is to punish us for the wrong doing of another. Free 
us from the thought that such an awful God exists, 
Free us from the Materialistic thought that death 
ends all, for each one. Free us from the ignorance 
of the Agnostic who does not know, for you will 
then know that your lost loved ones still live, and 
that you shall meet them beyond the divide, in the 
great and perfect day, you will then know that if 
you live a true and noble life of kindness, charity 
and brotherly love, you will be happy in the great 
beyond, in just proportion to your good work here 
on earth, for "by their fruits shall the tree be 
known," and "the truth shall make you free." 



94 

THE FALL OF MAN 

Vone dime der vas vone Breacher man 
So dall, so plump, un vatt. 

He had der vinest suit of clothes, 
Und vore der beegest att. 

He vas so brout of wat he wear, 

He look so ferry vine, 
Dot ven der ladies look dot vay, 

Deir eyes, dey fairly shine. 

Un he vas been vone craduate, 
From College dont you zee, 

So he could dell you pout dis life 
Und vat your next vood be. 

Vie, he cood dell how Got had made 

De eart un stars un sky, 
In only yust six leetle days 

Den lay hees vork all by. 

He tell how Yoshway stop der moon 
Und made her sun stan still. 

So Got could have a leetle dime 
Sum more, dem folks to kill. 

He tell how Noa made de ark 

Un den vent in un staid 
Vile God cot mad un sent vone flod 

To drown der folks he made. 

Und vonce he dell apout Gots plan 

Of Tevil dempting Eve, 
Und all about der vail of man, 

Dot most of us pelieve. 

Der beoples say, he offul smart, 
You zome dimes hear dem say, 

Dey dinks it vas youst offul nice 
To ear him zing and bray. 



THE FALL OF MAN 95 

Oh my, it vas youst offul vine 

To ear dot breacher speak, 
He buy hes sermons, ready made, 

Und bractice all der veek. 

So he could read dem efry vord, 

Und not make vone mistake 
Und ven hes brayer vas done, he say, 

Amen, for Shesus sake. 

Put vone dime in de early spring 

In vone large country down 
De street vas full of filth and ice, 

De rain vas boring town. 

Hit vas youst den dees breacher come, 

All dressed in vine aray, 
Of broadclot suit, un dall pluck att 

To cross der street dot day. 

He add vone vine beeg umbarell 

As vone might vish to zee, 
Und of der beoples on der street 

Not vone so broud as he. 

Vel, he start oud to cross dot street 

Ven he got pout half vay 
Vone foot sleeped opp, un he sleep down 

So flat as he cood lay. 

Right down dere in der filth and dirt 

De vater mud un rain 
Hit deed not zeem to hurt him much, 

Put gif him lots of pain. 

Un den I hear him dalk out loud 

A bout some foreign nation 
Und Helin, some vone, I don't know, 

May be, twas some relation. 



96 THE FALL OF MAN 

Vel, den he rolled opp on hees knees 
Vid hands down on de ice, 

He cood not opp de first dime git, 
He add to dry um dwice. 

Dot umbarell, so proud and vine 
He deed not loose her feet 

Put ven de shentle breezes blow 
Hit strut right opp de street. 

Un dot pluck att, he rolled avay, 

More as a hundred feet, 
Through streams of vater filth and dirt 

Hit vent straight opp der street. 

Und ven dot breacher had got upp 

Und zee dot umbarell 
Ve hurd him say a word or doo 

Hit vood not do to dell. 

Un ven he start to get his att 

Der vater run so vast 
He talked to Got bout darning it, 

Vile he vas going past. 

Un den vone foot it sleep dis vay 

De odder hit slip dat, 
Un dere he stood right in de rain 

Vid out umbrell or att. 

Un den he say, hit vas not Got. 

Dot ever lay dot blan, 
Hit vas te Deffels dirty drick, 

Dot caused der vail of man. 



97 

BUILDING A HOME 

Did you ever build a home? I did, I had to. 

However, I did not tear down the old home before 
I built the new one. 

No, not even if the roof did leak, and the glass 
was out of the windows, the doors off the hinges, 
holes in the floor and the foundation gone to smash. 

No, I stayed in the old home until I had a 
comfortable place in the new one. 

I do not think it is a good plan to tear down the 
old home, until you are ready and well prepared to 
move into the new one, whether the new home be 
a material, or a spiritual home. 

So I am not going to try to tear down your 
religious home, I would rather you would live in it 
just as long as your own good judgment and reason 
will allow you to do so, because if you do that, you 
will have no regrets in leaving the old home, and 
you will enjoy the brightness, sweetness and free- 
dom of the new home, just so much better. 

Spiritualism is a great home, we think, greater 
than others because it takes in knowledge of a 
larger portion of natures great laws and teachings, 
and because it is based on the great facts of the 
continuity of life and spirit communion, which in 
turn is based on the omnipresent, unchangeable 
laws of nature, and natural phenomena, both 
material and Spiritual. 

In telling of my spirit home that I am building, I 
shall not ask you to accept, or adopt, a single 
feature that I may present, unless you are thor- 
oughly satisfied that it is in harmony with the 
eternal, unchangable laws of nature, and that by 
your own good reason and judgment, you find it 
adapted to your own home, which you are building 
day by day, by your own good thoughts and acts, 

There is a good reason why, I would rather you 
would live in your old home as long as you can, 
while building your new one. It is this; it will enable 



9 8 BUILDING A HOME 

you see the defects in the old home, so you will be 
able to build the new one more perfectly. 

Look at the foundation of the old home, study 
it carefully, you will then see its defects, you will 
possibly want a better foundation, you will not be 
satisfied with a foundation builded on the sands of 
faith and fiction, ignorance and superstition, 
bigotry and deception, cemented together by a 
belief in, and fear of, eternal torment. 

You will want to build the new foundation of the 
solid rock of truth, sustained by absolutely demon- 
strated facts, both material and Spiritual, cemented 
together with a positive knowledge of spirit 
communion and continuity of life. 

Then you will have a foundation that has stood 
the test of the ages, and will stand the test of all 
time, a foundation sustained by the eternal laws of 
nature, which were without beginning and will be 
without ending, yesterday, today, and forever the 
same, and, not created by a personal, angry 
jealous God, a God of war; being as they are a part 
of the infinite principles of nature, without begin- 
ning and without ending, infinite, eternal, un- 
changeable, omnipresent. Infinite, because un- 
limited, boundless, Eternal without beginning, and 
without ending. Omnipresent, everywhere present, 
no place where they are not. Unchangeable, 
immutable, yesterday, today and for ever the same, 
which laws are the principles inherent in, or a part 
of nature itself. 

On such a foundation your home will be builded. 

The floor of your home will not have holes into 
which you will step and fall, or rough spots on 
which you will trip and stumble. 

You will not be promised a harp and crown if 
you confess you are sorry that some one did wrong 
in the long ago past; or that you are sorry for any 
wrongs you may have done; no promise of a home 
of blissful happiness, while your lost loved ones are 
in a firey furnace of eternal torment, there to 



BUILDING A HOME 99 

remain through the endless ages of time. 

The floor placed on the new foundation will be 
strong and smooth. It will support you, will keep you 
out of the dungeon of darkness and ignorance, out of 
the pitfalls of wrong doing, for on your floor will 
be spread the carpet of truth and justice towards 
all men. 

On this carpet the great sin of the ages, greed 
for wealth and fame cannot come. 

No great power aside from the infinite laws of 
nature can rule over you except it be that power, 
born of sweet harmony, true friendship, good deeds 
and brotherly love. 

And when you come to the doors, they will be 
strong and well hung, to keep out the storms of 
wrong and deception. They will swing inward to 
let in the sweet messages from the great beyond, 
that your loved ones may come freely into your 
presence, to cheer and guide you, through earth 
life, with their comforting messages and healing 
power. These doors will also swing outward, that 
your good work and good thoughts may reach out 
to those who are ill or sorrowing for their lost loved 
ones, to comfort, cheer and support them. They 
will swing outward to, that eventually your own 
soul, you, may be free to take your flight to that 
great Spirit home "not made with hands" or with 
dollars but with pure thoughts, kindly acts and good 
deeds, eternal in the great and perfect day. 

And from those windows, you will have a 
broader view, you will drink in the joys of nature, 
you will look out over the broad fields of golden 
grain, the rich clover bloom and the bright flowers 
around your home, and through the inward swing- 
ing doors, their fragrance will be wafted into your 
presence and your soul will be filled with joy and 
sunshine. 

You will then realize that the infinite principles of nature 
are the true source of all good. 

To build your home in harmony with these prin- 



ioo BUILDING A HOME 

ciples, will bring you the true joy of life, which the 
world today is missing in its mad rush for the 
almighty dollar, and a personal God on whom to 
cast all its sins. 

You will realize that you must bear your own 
burdens of sin and that evil thoughts or deeds, can 
only bring sorrow, suffering and regrets, and that 
every effort for goodness and right will make you 
stronger to overcome evil, and will be like a sweet 
bright blossom, that will go with and cheer you 
adown the ages. 

Your roof, will not be a leaky one, for your home 
will be covered by knowledge and wisdom, friend- 
ship and brotherly love, cemented together with 
the great bond of true harmony. 

Living in the new home, you will pass down the 
western slope of earthly life, rejoicing in the broad- 
est liberty of thought, the truest freedom of soul, 
the sweet harmony of true friendship and high and 
holy love. 

When you pass the great divide, your pathway 
leads through leafy woodland bowers, beside a 
rippling stream, whose voice mingled with the music 
of birds and the whisperings of the leafy branches 
of the trees, as they are stirred by the gentle 
breezes, will quicken you to a better understanding, 
and teach you much of the wonderful harmony 
and grandeur of nature's great wealth of goodness 
and beauty. 

As you pass along you will behold the wonderful 
gardens of beautiful, fragrant flowers, the broad 
fields of golden grain, the green pastures, the 
orchards and vinyards, ladened with red, yellow 
and purple fruits, and your whole being is filled 
with admiration and praise, of the wonderful 
beauties and blessings presented by the infinite 
powers of mother nature. 

Again you look before you, and on the shores of 
a silver lake are beautiful lawns, bedecked by 
clusters of trees and flowers, and a little further 



BUILDING A HOME 101 

on you see a stately mansion, partly hidden by the 
leafy trees and climbing vines, and as you and your 
guide walk along the pathway, with its border of 
flowers and ferns; you look and wonder, who 
could be the architect, the designer of such a 
beautiful building. As you draw near it, your 
guide steps aside for a little distance leaving you 
alone. 

As you wait, you look and above the door in 
shining letters of golden light, are the words 
"YOUR HOME NOT MADE WITH HANDS BUT 
WITH GOOD DEEDS, TRUE THOUGHTS, AND 
KINDLY ACTS, WALK IN. 

You are overcome with joy and surprise, but 
your guide comes to your assistance. E'er long you 
approach the door, It opens, and you enter, there 
to meet your long, lost loved ones, who have waited 
and watched for your coming, to welcome and 
greet you. 

Overcome with joy and in the arms of your loved 
ones you fall asleep, and rest. 

THE AWAKENING 
It is not all of spirit life, to meet your lost loved 
ones and go with them through beautiful fields of 
growing grain, through orchards of green and 
gold, red and purple fruits, the wonderful gardens 
of perfect flowers in spirit land, and to wander 
through the spice ladened forests where the beaut- 
iful birds are singing their sweetest songs; or to 
sail on the silver lakes and gliding streams, or to 
go up into the mountains with their wonderful 
grandeur and beauty, and to follow some rippling 
stream as it seems to bound from rock to rock, or 
whirl and eddy in some deep pool; again to dash 
out and make a wonderful leap where the air 
resistance dashes it into spray, and the sunlight 
catching it's ever changing position sends forth the 
colors of the rainbow, which like the spray, is con- 
stantly whirling and shifting, mingling all the 



102 BUILDING A HOME 

beautiful colors, yet, all in perfect harmony. 

Then there is music, so sweet and harmonious, 
the laugh and songs of loved ones, and all are loved 
ones here, then the great joy of "soul communion," 
but little understood in earth life. 

When we have advanced to a certain degree or 
condition, then when we desire any positive know- 
ledge which we have prepared ourselves to receive, 
we do not have to wait to read, or for spoken words, 
which often but feebly express the thought we are 
seeking; but sweet soul communion, gives us the 
thought, which is the correct answer to our 
questioning, for it will be in harmony with the 
infinite, eternal principles of nature. 

And still we have grand lessons to learn and to 
live, in the great processes of eternal progression. 

Yes, the grand thoughts of the advanced souls 
are received by those who are next below them in 
the scaie of understanding and knowledge, not by 
spoken words, but by soul communion, whereby 
each soul can catch the thoughts of those next 
above as quickly as he can prepare himself for, and 
understand them, thus growing in the great system 
of eternal progression. 

Yes, eternal, for even material substance is 
eternal, and the processes of natural evolution are 
endless. 

While loved ones can remain together if they 
wish, yet they may be in entirely different spheres. 
This does not refer to place, but to condition of 
advancement. 

It takes a long time, no one knows how long, to 
reach the highest, the best and noblest condition, 
even if there be a limit which as yet seems not to 
have been found. 

And yet this is not all there is for us to do. 



BUILDING A HOME 103 

There are always many coming to this summer 
land of peace, harmony and love, some of whom 
are well advanced in true knowledge, but many, 
very many, are not, and many are as it were in the 
dense darkness of ignorance and superstition. 

We find so many who have been following false 
prophets, false teachings under Pope and Priests, 
Kings and Emperors, claiming to rule by divine 
right, and under the rule of the "Gods of Gold," 
who have held them down by conditions, so they 
could only live just a little above the animal life 
and some of these are so bound down to former 
beliefs, that it is a long time before they will listen 
to or consider a single thought, from the guides 
that are trying to help them to a better under- 
standing. But the lowest among them are such as 
had all the opportunity for advancement but serving 
mammon they held their subjects down to the very 
lowest plain of life, in order that they might attain 
for themselves, riches and fame. 

Others nearly as low, are those that allow them- 
selves to be ruled by their own anger and jealousy, 
thereby injuring their own souls, as well as the 
souls of others, their friends and loved ones, and 
ofttimes leading to terrible crimes, some of which, 
it would seem, they could never overcome and out- 
grow. 

However in every soul there is some good, and 
it will grow, but sometimes very slowly, until the 
wrong is eventually overcome, for good is always 
in harmony with nature and it will live and grow. 

So, it is for all souls to assist all those below 
them, until they shall reach the condition where 
they can receive by and through soul communion; 
when they can advance as rapidly as they can 
learn and gain an understanding of life in spirit. So 
it is the work of those in the lower spheres to 



io4 BUILDING A HOME 

assist those that come and each one is, as it were, 
assigned to take charge of some soul as a guide, and 
ofttimes one may be assigned to care for one he has 
wronged, to help him until his own soul shall have 
overcome and outgrown the wrong he did them. 

So it is not alone repentance, that will free us 
from wrong, but it is earnestly striving and working 
to assist others to advance, and in this work we 
rejoice in the good we can do, it not only helps 
others, it also helps us to grow stronger and better, 
preparing us for further advancement and greater 
joy. 

We find people in earth life are so bound down 
by their beliefs, that only few can receive the real 
soul communion, and in so many cases the former 
teachings and beliefs of the medium leave so 
strong an influence upon them, that they cannot 
free themselves from it, hence many mediums can 
only teach the truth in part and much of their 
teachings are clouded by the false teachings of 
their earlier lives, thus making a mixture of the 
various religious teachings, with the real teachings 
of Spiritualism. 

Yet there are a few that can give forth the un- 
clouded truth, in harmony with the infinite, eternal 
principles of nature, which now is, and ever will be, 
the real foundation of truth, which alone can make 
you free from wrong and error. 

Glad will be the day when there will be plenty 
of mediums freed from all false teachings, enabling 
them to give forth the grand truths of spirit life, 
unclouded by error; for the truth, and truth alone, 
can give the light that can lead the way to the best 
conditions on earth, as also, the best when passing 
to the great beyond. 



io5 

HOME 

One morning in Spring, when Freedom was king 

In the days of long, long ago, 
I chanced to be out, on a merry scout, 

In the woods, where the wild flowers grow. 

While crossing a stream, where bright waters gleam 

And sparkle and roll swift away, 
A low voice I heard, of sweet singing bird, 

As I watched the minnows at play. 

At sound of the bird whose music I heard, 

I looked to the East and the West, 
And saw in a tree, but a few feet from me, 

Some birds had builded a nest. 

I kept very still and heard the sweet trill 
Of the bird, and thought he would come 

And visit the nest, where his mate was at rest, 
For this, indeed was their home. 

Their hearts beat as one, in the work they had done, 

In building their nest in the tree, 
And so it is home, wherever they roam, 

In life's, great mysterious sea. 

And so as away, I wandered that day, 

As I looked on palace or cot, 
I thought of the bird whose music I heard 

And the nest, I never forgot. 

And then in one place, with stateliest grace, 

Stood a mansion so tall and grand, 
But from it I heard the most hateful word, 

A word that love, never had planned. 

But laughter and song, as I passed along, 

From a nice little cottage did come, 
With hand and with heart, they each bore a part, 

So that one I said, was a home. 



106 HOME 

And then when at eve my steps did retrieve, 

Till I met my wife and my child, 
As pure and as true as the sparkling dew, 

And with hearts, all as undefiled. 

I thought of the bird, and the music I heard, 
In the woods where the wild flowers grow, 

I thought of harsh word, and the laughter I heard, 
And my heart, with love was aglow. 

A low little cot, in a cool quiet spot, 

Was the place to which I had come, 
The lesson I met, I ne'er will forget, 

It is love, that maketh a home. 




Prayers to the Goddess of Liberty 

Oh Goddess of liberty, freedom and peace 

O come with they power from above 
And give every nation from hatred, release, 

And rule all the world with thy love. 
Oh make every nation the land of the free. 

With banners of right all unfurled, 
Make nation love nation, o'er land and o'er sea, 

Thus bringing true joy to the world. 



107 

THE WORLD DOES MOVE 

The world does move so said Galileo in the long 
ago past, and he was condemned and imprisoned 
for that statement. 

I feel that I have a work to do, a work for 
humanity, a work for freedom and knowledge, yet 
I know I shall be laughed at and ridiculed, if not 
arrested and imprisoned. 

But I know, as does every thinker that reads the 
records of the past, that all progress in whatever 
line it may come, has always,and will always come, 
from the minority, the few, the little things. 

Even the great inventors of the past have been 
laughed at and ridiculed, and many times im- 
prisoned, yet the final result has been wonderfully 
great, for truth can never die. 

Notice, Galileo, Hyapatia, also Papin the inventor 
of the first steam cylinder, Fulton with his steam 
boat, Franklin with the telegraph, Bell with the 
telephone; laughed at and ridiculed because theirs 
were new thoughts developed, and not in harmony 
with the old time teachings. So if I am ridiculed for 
presenting the thoughts herein expressed, I shall 
not have been the first, who has received a like 
reward for good work. 

So I do not care if I am laughed at and ridiculed, 
as I undoubtedly will be, for the work I have to do 
is in conflict more or less with the old popular, but 
threadbare, and worn out teachings of the 
ignorant past. 

Teachings that are so perceptibly false and un- 
reasonable, that the intelligent thinking men and 
women, who can for one single day, lay aside their 
fear and prejudice, and use their own reason and 
good judgment, can never again go back into the 
conditions of the old time teachings of the priest- 
hood and enslavement, of the dark ages. 

I have said, that any religious teaching to be 



108 THE WORLD DOES MOVE 

true, must be in harmony with the eternal, un- 
changeable, omnipresent principles inherent in 
nature, and being boundless, unlimited, we call 
them infinite. 

Now I find that in the year 1890, according to 
statistics, there were 49 denomations with 142 
sub-denominations, and 156 independent bodies, 
besides the Spiritualists- which were not then 
considered a religious body, making 347 Christian 
beliefs; so it is evident they cannot all be correct; 
their teachings cannot all be true, and there is only 
one chance in 347, that you are following the true 
teachings, as a believer in any one of these. 

However after more than 56 years of study of 
various lines, I have not found a single one whose 
teachings are in harmony with the infinite prin- 
ciples of natural law, excepting Spiritualism. 

Now let us notice that approximately one half 
of the people of the so called Christian nations, do 
not accept any of the above named teachings, then 
let us not forget that these Christian nations 
constitute less than one third of the earth's 
population. 

Christian nations do not include the Shintoists, 
the Pagans, the Brahmans or the Buddhists, which 
constitute more than two thirds of the earth's 
population. Then let us just think for one moment, 
what an insignificant part of earth people could be 
saved by any one or all of these teachings, yet if 
the church teachings are true, all who do not accept 
the Bible teachings, of the fall of man, vicarious 
atonement, and repent for Adam's sin, must go to 
eternal torment. 

Yet all earth's people are human beings, true 
some are good and some are bad, but no matter how 
bad, if they repent for Adam's sin and are baptized 
they will be saved, otherwise they will be eternally 
tormented. 

Can such a torment be the work of a just and merciful God? 
Ask yourself , Can it? 



THE WORLD DOES MOVE 109 

Now I shall attempt to teach only the truth, but 
truth is always radical, as compared with myth, 
error, falsehood and deception, it always hits hard, 
and for presenting these thoughts of freedom, 
happiness, and progress before the world, I shall 
probably be ridiculed and condemned, if not im- 
prisoned, even as Galileo, Bruno, Hyapatia, 
Socrates, Joan of Arc and thousands of others even 
down to the hanging of Quakers and so called 
witches in the New England States, since which 
time many have been, and are today being 
persecuted, who dare to think and reason, dare to 
speak or print the truth, and not bow down in 
silence, fear and sorrow under the threats of 
rulers, like ignorant slaves, where church and state 
are one. 

I am an American, I believe in freedom, thanks 
be to Thomas Paine, the first man that ever spoke 
or wrote the words "THESE FREE AND IN- 
DEPENDENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" 
the man who made it possible to write into the 
Constitution of the United States, that clause 
which gives to each individual the right to worship 
God according to the dictates of his, or her, own 
conscience. 

Yes friends, that clause in the Constitution has 
given us of the United States, a greater freedom, 
than people of any other country of the known 
world has ever had since Constantine established 
the teachings of the trinity 325 years after Christ. 

That is the principle that the grand old stars and 
stripes stand for, that is the principle we have 
fought for in the years past, and now the world war 
is past, that grand principle will be, must be, the 
great keystone of the unity of nations, that shall 
forever put an end to rule by so called divine right. 
It will be an inevitable result, although it will take 
many years to bring it about, yet, it will eventually 
come. 

Money has become the God of the twentieth 



no THE WORLD DOES MOVE 

century, aided by the church and the money ruled 
press, it has become the ruler of the nation; but 
that will sooner or later pass, and the whole world 
will eventually be governed even as our most 
honored president Abraham Lincoln said this 
country should be ruled, by a government "of the 
people, by the people, and for the people." 

I am a patriot, in that I want, not only freedom 
for myself, but freedom for every man, woman and 
child on this old earth, freedom from its many false 
Gods and false teachings. 

Now let us not forget that more than 500 million 
Shintoists believe in the teachings of Confucius, 
who was born 551 years before Christ, and who 
gave the world the golden rule, or took it from the 
ancient Vedas; which according to good authority 
was written 1400 years before Christ; so Christ was 
not the author of it as is generally taught in 
Christian countries; as it was either originated by 
or handed down by Confucius, in its best form as 
follows. "Do not unto others that which you would 
not that others should do unto you." 

I am getting old, my earth life means but little 
to me, I do not care for the ridicule of the masses, 
or the scorn of the rulers. Having cast aside all 
fear and prejudice, and following the principles 
eternal in nature, by thought and reason ; which 
make a man above a brute ; I hope some day to be 
written as a fearless one, striving and hoping to 
help to turn the tide of thought of the masses, away 
from the false teachings of the ignorant or bigoted, 
selfish priesthood and rulers of the past, the dark 
ages, to the teachings of the great fact of natural 
law; the infinite, eternal, unchangeable, omni- 
present principles, inherent in nature, which are 
proven by the phenomena of nature, to be the great 
lights that are to enlighten the world, and from 
which all progress is derived. 

The great light of freedom, health, happiness 
and progress, can come only by and through a 



THE WORLD DOES MOVE in 

better knowledge and understanding of the grand 
and infinite principles of nature, and living in har- 
mony with them. 

Now there are many millions of people in the so 
called Christian countries who, after a careful in- 
vestigation of the Christian church teachings, have 
come to believe said teachings are not true, and 
they are no longer interested in them- perhaps they 
may like the principles of the golden rule, and 
many of them live upright noble lives, yet believing 
that death ends all for each individual ; or, that 
he who lives a good honest life, will neither be 
eternally tormented, nor compelled to play a harp 
and sing throughout eternity ; and they no longer 
investigate any religious teachings, and do not 
worry about the future, do not think there is any 
evidence that there is a life after the change called 
death. 

Still another class, neither believe in the 
Christian teachings, nor a future life, and do not 
care for anything in earth life but their pleasure, 
and do not try to curb their evil thoughts and acts. 
These are the source of a large part of our 
criminals and law breakers. 

Spiritualism is the only religion (if it rightly can 
be called religion) that demonstrates its teaching 
of spirit communion and the continuity of life, the 
only teaching that is in harmony with the eternal, 
unchangeable laws of nature, as demonstrated by 
natural phenomena. 

Now we have had spirit communion, spirit 
phenomena in all asres since we have had history 
to record it, the Bible is filled with it. If it were 
taken out of the Bible there would be but little left. 

According to the Bible, King Saul went to the 
Woman of Endor and communicated with the 
spirit of Samuel. Moses and Elias appeared on the 
mount of transfiguration; John the Revelator saw 
the Angel, and when he had seen and heard he fell 
down to worship at the feet of the angel, then said 



ii2 THE WORLD DOES MOVE 

he (the Angel) "see thou do it not, for I am thy 
fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets." 
Now, you can choose which you will accept, either 
these were spirit communications, or the Bible is 
false. 

Socrates had familiar spirits, Joan of Arc was 
guided by spirit power in her leadership to the free- 
dom of France, but she was condemned and burned 
at the stake, by the ignorant, bigoted priests and 
rulers of the time; but today France has been 
awakened to the fact that Joan of Arc was just 
what she claimed to be, and a monument to her 
memory has been erected on the same spot on which 
she was burned at the stake. 
Yes the world does move! 

Since the advent of modern Spiritualism there 
have come to be mediums in every civilized country, 
where the laws would allow them to manifest, 
giving forth the evidence of spirit communion under 
conditions that absolutely prove its truth. 

This phenomena does not purport to come from, 
or by the aid of, a personal, all wise and all power- 
ful God, but it does and always must come, as 
natural phenomena, and in harmony with the 
eternal, unchangeable principles of nature. 

These principles being eternal, unchangeable, 
omnipresent boundless and unlimited, we would 
call them infinite, and these principles cover all the 
phenomena of nature, that is ordinarily attributed 
to God or the Devil. 

These principles are not a personality, they can- 
not answer prayer, however prayers to the lost 
loved ones are many times answered, if they are of a 
spiritual nature and within the limits of spirit 
power. 

There is no religious teaching, that teaches 
higher morals or gives better reasons for living an 
upright life than Spiritualism. No other religion 
backs up its work and teachings, with the 
absolute proof of a future life, by means of present 



THE WORLD DOES MOVE 113 

day demonstrations. No other religion is in harmony 
with the teachings of science, or in harmony with 
the underlying principles of natural law. 

Spiritualism teaches that every soul that lives on 
earth will live after the change called death, that we 
must outgrow our evil thoughts and wrong acts, 
that progression is a great and eternal principle in 
nature. 

If we lead evil lives , we will be in a low 
condition when we pass on, as it were, in a place 
of darkness. 

One of the greatest crimes against our own in- 
dividual soul is ignorance. The principles of 
eternal progress tells us that we will have to out- 
grow our ignorant and evil conditions as we ad- 
vance by progress after the change called death. 

We will attain more of happiness, when we 
have outgrown the remorse and suffering for the 
wrongs we have done. 

So Spiritualism teaches us to live to our highest 
and best, ever remembering that our loved ones 
can and do, know our good as well as our evil work. 

We should so live that they will still love us, and 
millions of Spiritualists have been made better men, 
and women, by these teachings. Now with best 
wishes for all the world, I can truly say the world 
does move. 

BENEDICTION 

Now from whatsoever source it may come, may 
the light of truth high and holy, rest on every soul, 
and lift us up to a better understanding, of the 
needs of humanity everywhere, making our own 
lives more full and sweet and the world better 
everywhere. 



114 

AFTER THE HUSKING BEE 

'Twas on an Indian summer night, 

The moon was shining soft and bright, 

He asked her then to be his bride, 

And in her answer, she replied, 

If you will promise firm and true, 

That you'll not drink, nor smoke nor chew, 

Then I'll consent to marry you. 

I will, he said, say when my dear, 

Her answer was, another year, 

And at the biggest husking bee, 

Where all our neighbor friends can see, 

Then let the parson say the word, 

The sweetest one we ever heard, 

To make us one, through coming years, 

Of health or sickness, joy or tears. 

Let us agree before you go, 

That not a single soul shall know, 

But our fathers and mothers, see, 

To help us plan the husking bee, 

And when at last they came to part, 

A flood of joy was in each heart. 

*— THE YEAR—* 
The days grew short and the nights grew cold 
Old time in his flight, fast onward rolled, 
And it was not long till one early morn, 
When Robert was tending the growing corn, 
A quail on the fence called out "Bob White," 
Bob listened, then said "Twas a bird, all right," 
Just over the fields of fast growing corn, 
Was Jennie, at work, that same bright morn, 
When a Robin said, Miss Green, Jennie Green, 
Now scour your skillet, and scour it clean, 

And the days were hot, and the corn grew fast, 

Until it was ready to cut at last, 

And then in the shock it stood, to prine, 

Until it was Indian summer time, 

And every one said, that the biggest corn 



AFTER THE HUSKING BEE 115 

They had ever seen grow, since they were born 

Was down by the woods, in Robert White's field, 

It was bound to show just a bumper yield. 

The love in Bob's heart, the corn seemed to know. 

That seemed to help it. It wanted to grow, 

And one cannot tell how much has been wrought, 

By giving to crops, a good loving thought. 

Twas late in the fall, the weather was fine, 

They figured it out, that the moon would shine, 

Then the word was sent out, that on Thursday night, 

There'd be a corn husking, for friend Bob White, 

All are invited, be sure that you come, 

You will miss a rare treat, by staying at home. 

From near and from far, the people turned out, 

More than a hundred, I haven't a doubt. 

They had been husking for two hours or more, 

And every one happy as ever before, 

A loud call was heard, and some one did say 

It is now almost ten, all come up this way, 

Form a circle, "around this pile of corn," 

And then came a blast from the old dinner horn, 

A signal for action, five minutes to ten, 

The guests all questioned its meaning, just then, 

But Robert and Jennie, stepped forward right there, 

The Parson soon made, just one, of the pair, 

Then came lemonade, and candy so sweet, 

And grapes and oranges, all you could eat, 

But not any wine, that's going too far, 

And not any beer, nor a single cigar. 

* —SUPPER— * 

The supper, roast turkey, with biscuit so white, 
With gravy spread over them, made them all right, 
With corn cakes, and sweet cakes and cookies 

galore, 
And pies of all kinds, six dozen or more. 

Then before going home, the guests had all said, 
Their blessings, to rest on the young couples head, 
Though Jennie had changed her color, that night, 
All felt that her record, would always be White. 



n6 AFTER THE HUSKING BEE 

* — LIFE — * 
The days have flown by and long years rolled away, 
Two girls and two boys have come to them to stay, 
And the girls are doing the house work, they say, 
Yes doing it all in a practical way, 
They are jewels, compared with some that I know, 
Who cannot bake pancakes, or stir up the dough. 
Who pimp up, read novels, as long as its light, 
While their mothers work hard, rom morning till 

night. 
The boys work the farm, they are husking to day, 
With gas engine outfit, in up-to-date way. 
So Robert and Jennie, are happy and free, 
Their load has been taken by others, you see, 
And just now, when they heard the gas engine 

chug, 
They met with a kiss, and part with a hug. 
Their life has been happy for all the long years, 
Though sometimes came sorrow and eyes filled 

with tears, 
And every one learned to respect old Bob White, 
For he had been honest, and tried to do right, 
And the whole life of her, who was Jennie Green, 
She kept like the skillet, exceedingly clean. 
And when they pass on, to the home o'er the way 
True love will go with them, for ever to stay, 
And they will be happy, at home o'er the tide, 
Through all the long journey, beyond the divide. 



H7 

THOUGHTS ARE NOT THINGS 

Christ said "Ye are Gods" "God is within you" 

The God within must be, the living, thinking, 
conscious, entity, which can say, "I think, therefore 
1 am." 

This God within seems to consist of a conscious, 
intelligent, Spirit. 

First Corinthians — XV and 44th. St Paul says 
"It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual 
body, there is a natural body, there is a spiritual 
body. 

Undoubtedly he meant a material body and a 
spiritual body. 

These words of St. Paul correspond with the 
teachings of Spiritualism, as proven today by 
natural, spiritual phenomena. The Spirit body 
then, is the home of the soul, the God within, which 
consists of at least three prime principles, which 
are eternal in nature, namely the Spirit principle, 
consciousness, by which we are aware of our 
existence, and intelligence by which we KNOW, 
understand and learn. 

If we did not have consciousness we could not 
know that we lived, and would be in the same con- 
dition as the tree seems to us to be, that is living, 
but without knowledge, that it is living; and still 
we would not know what we are, without intelli- 
gence, so while the body may actually live, while 
we are unconscious and do not know that we are 
living, yet we are practically dead if unconscious, 
at least, so far as we would know. 

When conscious, you have intelligence, and these 
three, Consciousness, Intelligence and Spirit, are 
you, the individual you, that in earth life, is living 
in your material body, not that you as a material 
body have got a soul, no not at all, but you as a 
living conscious soul, have got a material body, in 
which you are living. Again, this is in harmony 



n8 THOUGHTS ARE NOT THINGS 

with St Paul's teachings, also it agrees with Christ 
when he said "ye are Gods," "God is within you" 
etc. 

But this is not the kind of a God, that it is claimed 
has created the universe. This kind of a God is 
not a creator and we fully believe that this God, 
which I would call the soul of man, is the only thing 
known to man, that can of itself set energy in action, 
yet it cannot create anything that man can find. 

It has also grown to know more today, than it did 
in the years past, it will know more in twenty five, 
fifty or one hundred years, than it knows today. 

This God, the soul of man, is progressive, it is 
constantly seeking to know more of the eternal, un- 
changeable, omnipresent principles inherent in 
nature. 

At each step it reaches out into the great un- 
known, and brings back some truth, some 
knowledge for mortal man, then the human race 
takes one step forward and upward, but this ad- 
vance did not create something new, no not at all, 
it only discovered another fact, another truth, 
from among the infinite principles of nature, 
natural law. 

Once discovered and demonstrated to be true, it 
takes place with other standard knowledge, ready 
for acceptance BY SUCH AS WILL CONSIDER, 
ACCEPT AND USE IT, and thereby the world is 
made wiser, and this God, the soul of man, can add 
to his stock of knowledge, whenever he will make 
room for it in his soul. 

I said this kindof a God does not create anything, 
although it is the only thing known to man that can 
of itself start energy in action, by this I mean the 
soul principle, which we find in animals, as well as 
in man, but not so fully developed, but we do know 
that some animals think. 

Here I would refer to a teaching given forth by 
many Spiritualist speakers, that looks false to me, 
and that is, that "thoughts are things." 



THO UGHTS ARE NOT THINGS 1 19 

If it were true, then the soul might be considered 
as a creator. But thoughts are not THINGS as I 
shall show. 

Thoughts are the RESULTS of things, they are 
the result, the effect, of mental or soul action, the 
same as sound is not a thing, it is the result, the 
effect produced by the action of something. 

To illustrate, suppose we are sawing wood with 
a circle saw- the saw cuts off a stick ; the saw acts, 
it does something; it saws off the stick, but the 
sawing is done. The sawing was not a thing, it 
was but the action of something, the stick is cut 
off, the sawing is done, the sawing ceases to be. 

The saw may still be running but not acting, but 
it is ready to act at any time, because, behind it is 
energy in action. 

So it is with the conscious soul, it sends forth it's 
thought, then ceases to act, or changes to some 
other thought, but it is constantly ready to act, as 
there is always energy at its command. 

A hammer, is a thing, so also is a bar of steel, 
with the hammer strike the steel bar, and a sound 
is produced, and if the bar is free to vibrate, it will 
produce a noise, a musical tone, if you please, but 
sound is not a thing, it is the result of the action of 
something, a vibration of the air, and when the bar 
ceases to vibrate the sound ceases. 

However sound can be recorded and reproduced, 
but the recorded is not the thing, not the sound, it 
is only a record, a track of it. 

The same can be said of thought, when a thought 
passes through your brain, it is gone, unless it is 
recorded somewhere. 

A thought may be recorded on the consciousness, 
the lambs book of life, or on the written or printed 
page, but the printed page is not the thought, it is 
but the record of it. If it were the thought then 
we could at once catch the thought from any 
printed page in whatever language it might be 
printed, which is positive evidence that the printed 



120 THOUGHTS ARE NOT THINGS 

page is not the thought itself, but only the record 
of it, and we can receive the thought from it, only 
when we understand the language in which it is 
printed or written. 

However, I have no reason to doubt thought 
transference, or, as I would prefer to name it, Soul 
Communion, wherein the thought of one conscious 
soul sends out a thought wave which reaches 
another conscious soul, that is many miles away. 

Neither have I any doubt but that a soul that has 
departed the material body, can under proper con- 
ditions, send to a sensative soul still in the body, 
his thought, in fact I believe the body of this 
article was so received by me. 

That these things do occur, seems no more 
strange to me, than the fact that when two pianos 
are at a little distance apart, and with the strings 
in accurate tune with each other, the strings of one 
will respond to the music played on the other, giving 
forth the same music; but they are very sensitive, 
and must be in accurate tune, in order to reproduce 
perfectly. 

We find in the solid red sandstone of the pliocene 
age, the tracks of animals made when the rock 
was in a plastic state, but those tracks are not the 
animal, neither are they the animal's foot, it is but 
a record showing that an animal had walked across 
that rock when it was in a plastic state. The stone is 
a thing, the animals foot was a thing, but the track 
as a track, is not a thing it is but the result of the 
action of a thing. The rock is no longer olastic, the 
animal was gone a million years ago and more, yet 
the track, the record of his action, his walking still 
remains. 

We catch thought from the spoken word, the 
printed page, we catch it through the senses, 
largely through the senses of sight and hearing, we 
see the birds and flowers, the things of nature, and 
hear their many voices. 

The Camera with its quick eye, will make a 



THOUGHTS ARE NOT THINGS 121 

negative on the sensative plate so wonderfully quick. 
Just help me to take a picture of that train running 
at 30 miles per hour, which will pass by just across 
the arm of this little lake, in a few moments. 

We must get our camera properly set and know 
just when to make the exposure, we must arrange 
the camera shutter to give only one five hundredth 
part of a second exposure, to prevent the movement 
of the train from bluring the picture, but at 30 miles 
per hour the train would move only about 57 
thousandths of an inch, during the time of the 
exposure, which at this distance will make no per- 
ceptible difference. 

The Camera is set, the train is coming, and when 
the engine reaches a point directly between the 
camera and that old dry tree across the track, I 
will open the eye of the camera for only just one 
five hundredth part of a second, in order that the 
picture will not be blurred, for you see the negative 
plate is very sensative and it only takes a very little 
movement of the object to spoil a picture. We 
develop the negative, that is by a chemical process 
we solidify the plastic surface of that plate, just 
as the rays of light from that train and its 
surroundings has placed them in that wonderfully 
short time of one five hundredth part of a second, 
or at the rate of 30,000 per minute, this comparison 
of time shows how quickly the rays of light act to 
change the surface of that sensative plate. Now 
we have to work carefully, for if we allow a ray of 
light even though it be but a very faint ray to reach 
the negative plate before it is developed, it will in- 
jure or spoil the negative. Having completed the 
negative, that is having fastened the tracks made 
by the light on the sensative plate, even as the rocks 
became solid containing the tracks of the pre- 
historic animal, so this plate is made solid contain- 
ing the tracks of the light upon it. 

Then after the development of the negative, a 
strong light passing through the negative track, to 



122 THOUGHTS ARE NOT THINGS 

a sensatized paper, makes a track, which when 
developed completes the photo. 

Now you will notice the picture is a fine one, you 
can see the letters on the engine and the cars, also 
the letters cast on the caps of the axle bearings, 
also the old man who sits at the open window, fast 
asleep, dreaming perhaps of his childhood home, or 
possibly taking in a picture of the great beyond, 
where he must go e'er long, to meet his long lost 
loved ones. 

We see even the wavelets on the water near the 
track, that were caused by the jar of the train, and 
in those wavelets also we see the clouded reflection 
of the train, a perfect picture, is our developed 
photo, yet this photo is only the reversed picture, 
of the reversed track, left on the sensative plate of 
the negative. 

Yes, the God within, has developed the method 
of taking these photos, during the last sixty five 
years, beginning with the old Daguerreotype, which 
was practically the first successful picture, yet this 
God within has not created anything. It has delved 
into the workings of nature and grasped a know- 
ledge of some of the eternal, unchangeable, omni- 
present principles of nature, in chemical action and 
the action of light, and by that knowledge has 
made a combination, by which light leaves its track, 
that could not be made and preserved except in a 
place of darkness, where the light could enter only 
through a small opening, during an almost im- 
perceptible period of time. 

Yet nothing has been created, all these things 
existed in nature in some form, long before the 
sensative plate or the camera was invented. 

The train and its surroundings were the things, 
that sent the rays of light to the camera leaving 
their track on the sensative plate. 

Yes, the Camera received the rays of light re- 
flected by that train and its surroundings, through 
its quickly opened and closed eye, which light so 



THOUGHTS ARE NOT THINGS 123 

quickly changed the sensative substance on the 
surface of the plate leaving a much reduced but per- 
fect track, where the light had stepped upon it as it 
were, leaving every detail of the form of that 
rapidly moving train, and when the whole process 
is performed in perfect harmony with the eternal, 
unchangeable, omnipresent, principles of nature, 
a good picture is the result. 

Now I think that you will agree with me, that 
thoughts are not things, and that nothing as been 
created by anything referred to in my efforts to 
illustrate and explain. 




TO A FRIEND 

Oh little flash of sunlight 

Just reach across the way 
From those who know no darkness, 

In the great and perfect day. 
Oh may the lost ones ever 

Come close along your way, 
And give you peace and love, 

Through life's eternal day. 



124 

THE JOURNEY OF LIFE 

The Journey of life is a hard one, 

From Childhood to ripest old age, 
But all those who use their best judgment, 

In writing their history's page 
Have nothing to fear in the future, 

For reason and judgment's great plan, 
Is the highest endowment of mortals, 

That nature has given to man. 
Fear not when the journey is ending, 

If consciousness cease to exist, 
There'll be in the future, no sorrow, 

Or joy, by which to be blessed. 
If consciousness goes on forever, 

When into eternity hurled, 
We'll meet all our friends and our loved ones, 

With freedom's broad banners unfurled. 
And leave all our pain and our sickness, 

And hear not a sigh nor a moan, 
There'll be so much joy when we meat them, 

Our friends, our loved ones, our own. 
To journey on down through the ages, 

With all those dear friends that we love, 
And read natures laws from the pages, 

The bright ones have written above. 
We think of these pleasures extending, 

Throughout all eternities time, 
The beauties of nature all blending, 

Like flowers, in the summer land clime. 
We think of earth, how much better, 

If each one, but well understood, 
'Twould free their own souls from wrong's fetters, 

By living lives noble and good. 
A blessing 'twould be to all mortals, 

For wrong would then injure no more, 
'T would give us a glimpse through the portals, 

Where Angels swing open the door. 



125 

MEDIUMSHIP 

I am giving but little in this book along the line of 
Spiritual phenomena, but will give two more cases, 
the first I can vouch for, the second, a vision of 
mine. 

About twenty years ago, at a seance with the 
Materializing Medium known as Farmer Riley, who 
was a man of medium heighth and weight with 
rather round face and dark hair; twelve parties 
present. It was nearly time for the seance to begin., 
Mr. Riley opened the door in response to a rap, and 
found a lady and gentleman wishing to attend a 
seance. They were invited in, then the gentleman 
said "We have come from a long way off and do 
not wish to give our names and address until after 
the seance." 

Mr. Riley replied, "That is all right walk in." 

When the seance began three or four forms 
appeared which were easily recognized as Mr. 
Riley's Guides. Then after a few minutes the form 
of a tall heavy built man with very light complexion, 
white hair and long white beard, and long features, 
stepped from the cabinet. The two strangers arose 
at once and called him father, shook hands with 
him and talked for about five minutes, I think. 

I do not think a spoken reply was given, as that 
was not often the case in Mr. Riley's seances, 
although it did sometimes occur. 

The response by the Spirit was usually by nodding 
or shaking of the head or by gestures. A few minutes 
after the form stepped back in the cabinet, a slate 
was handed out for the gentleman, they read it and 
the gentleman said "The message is of no im- 
portance to anyone wife but my and myself, but I 
wish to say that it is written in my father's own 
hand writing and he spelled his name correctly and 
not one in a hundred ever did spell it right." 

A few minues later another form appeared, a 



126 MEDIUMSHIP 

broad shouldered man of a little less than medium 
height, with long features, light complexion, white 
hair and beard, but beard not so long as that of the 
first form, but this form had absolutely no eyes, both 
eyeballs being gone, leaving only the sockets. 

The two strangers arose at once and called him 
Uncle Zelel, shook hands and talked with him for 
a little time. 

This sitting of the seance then closed, then a slate 
was found in the cabinet with the following 
message, "I am not blind in spirit but I had to 
appear in that way that you might recognize me." 

After the seance I asked, How about this man 
without eyes? They replied, "When he was a boy 
he met with an accident that caused the removal of 
both eyes, and neither of us ever saw him with 
eyes." 

The strangers lived at Manton, Mich., while the 
seance was held at Mr. Riley's home three miles west 
of Marcellus, Mich. 

I can vouch for the correctness of the above and 
also that the cabinet was absolutely proof against 
outside help, but the recognition of the eyeless man 
as connected with the fact that he lost his eyes 
while a boy etc, constitute the supreme evidence of 
spirit communion and materialization. 

Very respectfully, H. L. Chapman. 
* —A VISION— * 

In the early morning of the day the Germans 
made their last great strike for Paris, March 20th, 
1918. 

I saw what at first looked like a Grape fruit, but 
it rapidly grew in size to hundreds of feet in height, 
a great yellow ball. 

Then I noticed it seemed to be rolling along 
quite rapidly for a time, then it slackened its pace 
and finally stoped. Then I noticed a great number 
of German soldiers, with their peculiar hats but 
they looked to be not more than one inch in height, 



MEDIUMSHIP 127 

they crowded under the ball with their shoulders 
and hands trying hard to roll it along, they seemed 
to start it a little occasionally but it moved but very 
little ; then I saw a long knife or sword which seem- 
ed to be hundreds of feet in length ; it was coming 
towards the ball. It seemed to be rather unexpect- 
ed by the German soldiers, for as it seemed to 
come near, they seemed in a great rush trying extra 
hard to roll the ball forward, but could not, finally 
the long knife began to pick at the ball, lightly at 
first, but it was not long until great rents were made 
in it, and soon the ball collapsed or fell apart, a 
great empty shell and the German soldiers were 
gone. 

H. L. Chapman. 

This was related at once to several parties before 
we had heard anything of the German advance or 
anything was known pertaining to the results, the 
following are among those to whom related. 

Rena Chapman Myers, M. B. Welcher, Mrs .M. B. 
Welcher. 



SPIRIT PRESENCE 

E'er the evening lamps are lighted 
And night shadows fill the home 
Then I often feel the presence 
Of the lost ones round me come. 

And sometimes they seem to touch me, 
Give a thought, my heart to cheer, 

Then it is their love can reach me, 
As I sense them hovering near. 



128 

Mediumship, Scientists and Science 

Nature has taught through the ages, 
That LIFE does extend o'er the way, 

It's written on all history's pages, 
Yet is not accepted today. 

Yes, only a few million people, 

Have dared to express their own thought, 
Step out and away from the steeple, 

Where bigoted priesthood has taught. 

But liberty seeking for knowledge, 

Has given us freedom of thought, 
And light shining out from the College, 

Proved false the things ignorance taught. 

And yet a great light has been leading, 
While seventy years rolled away, 

Advancing, but never receding, 

Has proved that the soul lives for aye. 

It came not from Priest nor from College, 

It came through the lowly in life, 
In spite of professors of knowledge, 

Who fought it in every day strife. 

It came through the raps and the vision, 

Or sight of the clear seeing eye, 
Or voice from beyond the division, 

The home in the great by and by. 

And now since the facts have been proven, 

By Mediums, lowly, but true, 
That lost ones our loved ones in heaven, 

Do really come back to our view. 

Then Scientists, claim all the honor, 

Of giving the light to the world, 
Yet Spirits are always the donor, 

With Medium's banner's unfurled, 



SCIENTISTS AND SCIENCE 129 

And Scientists, get secondhanded 

Like junk that is bought by the Jew, 

What Spirits to mortals have handed, 
Through prophets and seers, all new. 

Have Scientists not been in error, 

Through many a troublesome year, 
In fighting our cause as a terror, 

And teaching their doctrine of fear? 

And not until mediums taught it, 

Did they look beyond their dim light 

Of material things, but fought it, 
Until they were driven to right. 

And now they are trying to claim it, 

Although they have little to show, 
Compared with, "True Science" we name it, 

The truths that our Mediums know, 

It is time they awake and arise, 

Undoing the wrongs they have done, 

Let them sweep the cobwebs from their eyes 
And learn what our freedom has won. 

What is science? you ask me to say; 

It is knowledge of something, a fact, 
That will stand natures light, every way, 

And none can tear down by attack. 

And so our true science is standing, 

The scoffs and the jeers of the throng, 

That Scientists, long were commanding, 
But now they are singing our song. 

The man who receives from the spirit, 

And teaches just what he can see, 
Is giving, if you can but hear it, 

The Science, the tiuth that makes free. 



130 SCIENTISTS AND SCIENCE 

The truth that to mortals is given, 

Through Mediums common and plain, 

Who give us the teachings of heaven, 
Instead of dread torture and pain. 

Give credit, we ask of the masses, 

To those to whom credit is due, 
Which comes not alone to the classes, 

It's given by nature to you. 

Awake and arise and receive it, 

The truth "that no soul can e'er die" 

A fact nature teaches, believe it 
And dry up the tear in your eye. 

Let TRUTH, lead you on to the portal, 

That NATURES GREAT LAW doth proclaim, 

Eternal, Unchanging, Immortal, 

THAT'S SCIENCE, and ever the same. 




When the truth is realy spoken 
What so e'er the words may be 

There is only one decision, 
Abide ye by it, and be free. 

Yes the truth, the right and kindness 
Should for all a guide post be, 

They would silence mighty cannon, 
That now roar beyond the sea. 



I3i 

CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 

In coming before you this evening, I do not come 
as a professor of English, or an orator, I come as a 
common man a mechanic, a machinist. My language 
will be common language, with undoubtedly many 
errors. However the purpose of my coming is, to 
present in my weak way, a few statements, a few 
thoughts, not taken from any so called infallible 
book, or based on any unproved hypothesis. 

I shall endeavor to keep within the limits of truth, 
and back up every statement by historical or 
scientific facts, or by logical reasoning based on the 
Infinite, Eternal, Unchangeable, Omnipresent, 
principles inherent in nature. 

If I fail in this, I shall have failed in my purpose. 

Did you get the meaning of those words, Infinite, 
Eternal, Unchangeable, Omnipresent, principles 
inherent in nature? 

Infinite, because boundless, unlimited, Eternal; 
without beginning, and without ending. Unchange- 
able- immutable, yesterday today and forever the 
same. Omnipresent; everywhere present, no place 
where they are not. Principles; sometimes called 
natural law, which rules over and governs all things. 
Inherent in nature; a part of nature itself, and in- 
separable from it. 

The question we are to take up this evening is, 
"Was this universe created some eight thousand 
years ago, by an all wise and all powerful, personal 
God, as recorded in the Bible, or has it always 
existed in some form, of which old mother earth is 
a part, bearing records of millions of years, in her 
rocks, coal, mineral and other formations." 

This question dates back to the earliest reasoning 
and thinking man. 

Now we must not forget that truth alone can 
make us free. 

If we should all accept the Bible as being the 



i 3 2 CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 

infallible word of an all wise, all powerful God, 
that would settle the matter for us, even though it 
was not true ; but we cannot agree, we find errors in 
the Bible, in fact we find disagreement and con- 
tradictions in it. 

We also find it disagrees with many of the 
demonstrated and established facts of nature, 
and it would seem to me, that an all wise God would surely 
teach that which would be in perfect harmony with the infinite, 
eternal, uncha?igeable principles in nature, especially if fie has 
created said principles as claimed. 

Now in-as-much as truth alone can make us free, 
let us try to cast aside all prejudice, all preconceived 
ideas, as to how this universe came to be, and care- 
fully weigh the evidence presented. 

Practically all the evidence we have that the 
universe was created from nothing, by an all wise, 
all powerful God in the form of a Man, is that 
recorded in the Bible itself. So we would offer a 
few words in regard to this, so called, infallible 
book, and how it has come down to us. 

First, I will refer to the doctrine of the Trinity, 
and how it was established. 

The Council of Nice was called by Constantine 
the Emperor of Rome, 325 years after Christ, with a 
view to establishing the teaching that God the 
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, were 
all one and the same. 

However a man was present who spelled his name 
A-r-i-u-s, (note the spelling for a man who spelled 
his name A-r-i-a-s, lived some 1200 years later and 
took part in the Council of Trent) so do not mistake 
these names. 

Arius, was a Christian religious leader, with 
quite a liberal following, who claimed the Trinity 
could not be, for "the Father he said, must be older 
than the Son, and consequently they could not be 
one and the same." 

It is obvious, that if God the Father and God the 



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Son, were both one and the same, and the Holy Vir- 
gin Mary, was the mother of God the Son, as set 
forth in the Bible, then she must also have been 
mother of God the Father, consequently older than 
God the Father, and must have lived before God 
the Father created the universe. 

It is a well known fact, that at the present time, 
the Catholic church worships the so called Virgin 
Mary, as the mother of God. 

After a considerable controversy over this 
question of the three in one God; Constantine 
banished Arius and some of his followers, and then 
proclaimed the Trinity as being established. 

While Constantine was a Pagan in belief, he un- 
doubtedly took this course to win favor, as the 
Christians adhering to the doctrine of the Trinity, 
were rapidly increasing in numbers, and he sought 
their approval and support. 

Constantine was considered a good ruler, yet if 
you will look up his history, you will undoubtedly 
find that either directly or indirectly, he put to 
death some parties in order that he might become 
the Emperor of Rome. 

This is a short sketch of how the doctrine of the 
Trinity was established. For further information 
see the history of the Council of Nice. 

Now a little theory, as to how the books of the 
Bible came to be called sacred writings. 

During the thousands of years past, if not today, 
any new discovery or invention, anything strange, 
has been credited to a personal God, or charged to 
a personal Devil. 

We might name several cases as when Galileo 
built his telescope and discovered that the earth 
was round and moved instead of being flat, and 
stationary, as taught by the church, the church con- 
demned him for stating that the earth was round 
and moved, and they compelled him to recant or 
suffer the penalty for heresy, which was imprison- 
ment, torture, and death, if he would not recant. 



134 CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 

The church believed that the sun, moon and stars 
went around the earth every twenty four hours. It 
has been stated by some one that it taught that 
the flat earth rested on the back of an immense 
turtle, in the great sea ; but what the turtle and the 
sea rested on, no one knew, and no one dared to 
ask, but later, we have found it rested on faith and 
fiction, supported by the dense ignorance of that 
age. They believed that one could walk to the 
edge of the earth and fall off if not careful. 

If the Bible story is true, then, thanks to old 
mother Eve and the serpent, for by them, we have 
come to know. 

Yes, the God within us, is constantly progressing, 
and the light, the truth, will eventually illumine 
the souls of men and women, until we shall know 
the truth, shall know good from evil, and shunning 
the evil, we will hold fast the good and the true, 
that will make us free. 

Only a few years ago there was a sect of people 
living near Elkhart, Indiana and a large colony in 
the state of Washington, who would not use a wind- 
mill for pumping water, for they said the wind was 
God's power. 

Even today, many things occur that are 
attributed to a personal God, but true and proven 
messages from our lost loved ones, are condemned 
by the church, and many others that are ignorant 
of the facts, as being the works of the Devil. These 
parties have not the courage to investigate and 
learn the truth, even though Jesus said, "try the 
spirits" also that "the truth shall make you free," 
and Paul said "To faith add knowledge." 

Now to go back to the Bible and how it came to 
be called "sacred writings." 

We will undoubtedly all agree, that at some re- 
mote period of time, some man conceived the idea 
of using written characters, to represent words, as 
in the Chinese language, or parts of words as in the 
English language. When he had designed the 



CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 135 

characters and taught them to others, then he 
could write a few characters on a piece of papyrus 
and send it by an ignorant message bearer and the 
recipient would read it, and give orders accordingly, 
then the ignorant people would say, a wonderful 
thing, undoubtedly God's work, sacred writings. 

Later every tribe or nation had their scribes, and 
their history to some extent, which were carefully 
preserved. Sacred? Yes it was easy to call that 
tribal history, sacred writings. 

The Council of Trent was called and first con- 
vened on the thirteenth day of December 1545, and 
their work was completed and confirmed on the 
tenth day of January 1564, showing that although 
they were not in constant session, they were 
eighteen years, reading the so called sacred writings 
received from the different scribes of the past. 

These writings called books, were each one read 
by the Monks and Priests of the Council, and then 
separately voted upon to decide whether they should 
be accepted as the infallible word of God or 
should be cast out and destroyed. 

Practically speaking, about one fourth of the 
books were accepted, by a majority vote, something 
over one half were cast out and burned, while 
something less than one fourth were undecided, 
there being a tie in the vote. These books 
could not be accepted as God's infallible work, 
neither could they be cast out and destroyed. 
They are known as the Apocryphal Old 
Bible and Apocryphal New Testament. This 
being the year 1922, you will notice that their 
work was completed and confirmed, only 358 years 
ago, when probably not more than one man in one 
thousand, could read or write ; that being near the 
end of the 1100 years of the dark ages, when men 
were not allowed to say one word that was not in 
harmony with the teachings of the church, under 
the penalty of imprisonment, torture or death, as 
in the case of Galileo, Bruno, Socrates and others. 



136 CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 

Now I would ask ; Why should not the intelligent 
people, the scientists and thinkers of today, have 
just as good a right and be just as capable of 
passing judgment on those books, as were the 
monks and priests, of the Council of Trent, in that 
ignorant day and age. 

Now listen, be careful and candid, be honest 
with yourself. DID THE VOTE OF THOSE 
MONKS AND PRIESTS, MAKE SOME OF THOSE 
BOOKS INFALLIBLE AND DOOM OTHERS TO 
DESTRUCTION? 

Read that again. 

Did an infinite a?id all wise God write those books? If so, did 
God s word need their criticism and decision"? Did it? 

Now for just one moment consider the fact, that 
the Apocryphal books, only lacked just one vote 
of becoming a part of God's infallible book. 

Oh! Oh! Is it not too bad there was not just one 
more, ignorant monk or priest there to vote in their 
favor? 

Note the following — A revision of the old Bible 
was accomplished in 792 days and was completed 
June 20th, 1881. The revision of the New 
Testament was a more exhaustive task, requiring 
407 meetings, which lasted over a peroid of ten 
years. This new version was completed and present- 
ed to the convocation May 7th. 1881. Now if these 
books were the work of an all wise and all power- 
ful God, and his infallible word, given to man as a 
guide to save him from eternal torment, THEN 
WHY SHOULD MEN MEDDLE WITH IT, YES 
WHY? 

If those men had the right to correct or change 
God's infallible book, as they have done, then why 
should I be refused the right to question the 
authenticity of the book as they have changed it. 

Now just stop one moment and think, be careful, 
be honest, and ask yourself this question, IS THE 
BIBLE WHAT IT IS CLAIMED TO BE? IS IT 
INFALLIBLE? 



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Now Science has practically demonstrated that it 
is impossible to make something from nothing, or 
to destroy a particle of material substance, burn it, 
or do what you will with it; it only changes form- 
it still exists. 

Probably the strongest argument tending to 
prove the existance of an all wise Creator of the 
universe, is based on the theory of design, or 
Paley's watch. 

The watch being a complicated piece of 
mechanism, required a designer. The argument 
is, the universe is a complicated mechanical 
arrangement, therefore, it required a designer. 

Now as to the watch, every principle of the 
watch existed inherent in nature, millions of years 
before man studied out and made the mechanism, 
these principles or natural laws, existed co-eternal 
with time and space. 

Now is there any probability that there ever was 
a time when all, or any part of the eternal, un- 
changeable principles inherent in nature did not 
exist? We think not. 

Another argument against the conservation of 
energy, is brought up in this way, they say "wind 
up a watch spring and fasten it, then throw it into a 
tumbler of acid which soon eats the spring up ; now 
where has the power gone, that was required to 
wind up that spring?" 

Right here we must not forget, that power, heat, 
and electricity are practically one and the same 
thing, AS EITHER ONE OF THESE WILL 
GENERATE THE OTHER TWO. 

In the case of the watch spring the power has 
gone into the acid in the form of heat or 
electricity. 

We must also remember that the material from 
which to construct anything, under the eternal un- 
changeable laws of nature, must be as great or 
greater than the thing being constructed. So God 
or his materials must have been as great as the 



138 CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 

universe, THEY COULD NOT BE GREATER. 
So it would be as great a stretch of the 
immagination to suppose that such a God created 
the universe, with all its laws, from absolutely 
nothing, as it would be to suppose that each feature 
of the universe with all its inherent laws or prin- 
ciples, has always existed in some form, and co- 
eternal with time and space, as science now demon- 
strates them to be. 

Then we must not forget, that to build, or con- 
struct something is not to create. 

Right here lam reminded of a pre-war plantation 
song and joke, which ran as follows. 

Dis world was made in six days and den dey make 
de sky, 
An den dey hanged it ober head and lef it dar to 
dry. 

An den dey made de sea and in it put de whale 
An den dey made de Raccoon wid a ring aroun his 
tail. 

All de oder animals wus finished one by one 
An struck against de fence to dry, as fas as dey wus 
done. 

Hey dere Brudder Jonsing, who, who made dat 
fence? Oh Brudder Zekil, dat am an auful question, 
fo a poo ole niggah like yo to ast, but I'll tell yo 
Brudder Zekil, dat fens was made by de blamdist, 
biggest, blackes niggah yo eber seed, now doan yo 
ast no mo questions bout dat. 

I introduce this because it shows the attitude of 
the church during the, ignorant past, which was 
"swallow it whole and ask no questions," and even 
today when asked why they do not investigate and 
know what Spiritualism teaches, they often reply, 
I don't want to know, the Bible is good enough for 
me. 

But to resume, we must remember the power re- 
quired to move a load, must always be greater that 
the resistance to be overcome. 

Thousands of so called perpetual motion 



CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 139 

machines have been built by fine mechanics, yet not 
one of them has ever worked, because of nature's 
great law, "it requires a power greater than the 
resistance to be overcome, before the machine 
would run itself," that is to say, one of the supreme 
principles in nature, prevented their working. 

I will just mention a few of the eternal principles 
inherent in nature. They are, Time, Space, 
Energy, Vibration, Attraction, Repulsion, Con- 
sciousness, Life, Spirit, Intelligence, Substance, etc. 

Time was, without beginning; Time now is; Time 
will be without ending. 

Space is boundless, endless, unlimited, nothing 
could exist without space in which to exist. 

Energy is the only source of power or motion. 

Now a personal God, in order to create the 
universe must have space in which to work, space 
for his work shop, and time in which to work. 

But, some one says, "this whole universe was 
spoken into existance." However, I would remind 
him that it could not have been spoken into 
existance, without first having the great, infinite, 
eternal principle of energy, in action, FOR EVERY 
THOUGHT THAT HAS EVER BEEN OR EVER 
WILL BE, HAS REQUIRED, OR WILL REQUIRE, 
ENERGY TO SET THE THOUGHT IN ACTION. 

Therefore, energy must have existed before any 
thing could be spoken into existance, and if this 
great unchangeable natural law, did exist, prior to 
the creation, THEN IT WAS NOT CREATED BY 
SUCH CREATOR. 

The prime principle, "Energy" has existed 
co-eternal with time and space. Gravity, attraction 
and repulsion, are principles in nature that have 
existed since the principle of material substance 
has existed, which undoubtedly is co-eternal with 
time and space, and these principles are each a 
form of active energy. 

However energy may lie dormant, as in the lump 
of coal, the muscles of animals or man, and of itself, 



140 CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 

it is unable to act. 

The soul principle, seems to be the only thing in 
nature that in and of itself, has the power to set 
energy in action. 

The soul principle is, a combination of the principles of Life, 
Spirit, Consciousness and Intelligence, and is the source of 
thought and action. 

The Spiritualists declaration of principles states, 
"we believe in infinite intelligence" some call it 
God, but to me the word "soul" seems to be the 
right word. For the word "God" is used in connection 
with a supposed personality in the form of a man, 
and the creator of the universe, which the infinite 
principles inherent in nature deny. 

Now it is a self evident fact, that there could not 
have been space, when time was not, neither could 
there have been a time, when space was not, 
neither can such a condition ever occur. 

Therefore, time, space and the laws inherent in 
time and space that govern them, are infinite, 
eternal, unlimited, without beginning and will be 
without ending, so they could not have been 
created by an all wise personal God, as he would 
have had no time and space in which to work. 

Again, I will refer to the so called Holy Virgin 
Mary as being the mother of God the Son, and God 
the Father; and if such was the case, then she must 
have lived, must have existed, before God the 
Father was born ; consequently before time and 
space were, or else God the Father was not the 
creator of time and space and the laws governing 
them, and if he was the creator, -where was his 
mother prior to the creation, as there must have 
been absolutely nothing, if there was not time and 
space. 

Now some would say that without a God to 
govern, every thing would be run by chance. 

One says, "yonder stands a high rock, but at its 
base are large fragments that have fallen from it, 
earthquake shocks, and storms beating upon it have 



CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 141 

loosened the fallen parts, purely the work of 
chance." 

This party forgets that the storms, the earthquake 
shocks, the frost, the heat and all the elements, are 
acting under natural law governing them and their 
action. 

Not a piece of stone nor a grain of sand has 
moved from that rock, that did not move in harmony 
with natural law, with sufficient energy to cause it 
to move. 

Now nature does some wonderful things, did you 
ever see a thistle seed, with its papus or thistle 
down, to which it is attached by nature, natural law. 
It floats away on the breeze and somewhere finds a 
resting place. Its resting place was not predestin- 
ed, neither was it guided by a personal God watch- 
ing over it, but the action of the breeze on its downy 
structure, and the force of gravity, each acting 
under natural law, finally placed that thistle seed. 
All purely the work of natural law. 

What is natural law? It is not a spoken or written 
command or rule. Natural laws are the Infinite, 
Eternal, Unchangeable Omnipresent principles 
inherent in and inseparable from nature throughout 
the universe. 

I will endeavor to illustrate by the law governing 
mathematics, we say two and two equal four, we do 
not say this because man has demonstrated it to be 
true, but because it is an eternal, unchangeable, 
omnipresent principle in nature, that man cannot 
change. 

Again, in mechanics, in all the many thousands of 
complicated machines, for doing the various kinds 
of work, every moving piece must woik in harmony 
with the Infinite principles of nature or the machine 
will not work. At least no man ever invented a 
machine that worked, that was not in harmony with 
the unchangeable principles of nature. 

Inventors first decide what they wish their 
machines to accomplish, then they study the natural 



142 CREATED OR ALWAYS EXISTED 

law governing mechanics, and devise mechanism 
that will work in harmony with those laws to 
accomplish the desired results. 

Marconi, first discovered a certain principle ir 
the action of electric currents; he then decided that 
he could transmit signals without a wire ; he then 
devised the mechanism by which to transmit and 
receive such signals thus completing the wireless 
telegraph. He could not have done this had he 
not known and understood those principles. 

Chemists have also learned much in regard to the 
laws governing chemicals and their combinations, 
and can produce combinations that accurately give 
the same results. 

Now we find that the unchangeable laws of 
nature, govern all things, as science proves; then if 
a personal God has created these laws, he has put 
himself out of a job, and is no longer the governing 
power in nature, for law governs all. 

Now it might not be out of place to mention 
something about the dimensions of the universe, 
which it was said, God created in six days. That 
you may better comprehend distance, I would have 
you take a little trip with me. Suppose we start 
now from the City of South Bend, Indiana, and go 
on a fast train running at sixty miles per hour with- 
out a single stop. We would soon reach Chicago 
and going on and on, at the same rate we would 
soon cross the Mississippi river and then the 
Missouri river, and then over the great western 
prairie and up over the mountains, we soon land in 
SanFrancisco, California. Quite a trip. Few who 
have never been over the road can comprehend the 
distance, 2228 miles. Time at sixty miles per hour 
without a single stop, SIY2 hours. 

Now let us make a comparison, light travels at 
the rate of 186,000 miles per second, LIGHT 
WOULD HAVE MADE THE DISTANCE TO 
SANFRANCISCO IN LESS THAN ONE EIGHTIETH 
PART OF A SECOND. 



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Now think of going to SanFrancisco and back, 
forty times in one second of time Now since we 
are in SanFrancisco, let us go up to the Mount Lowe 
Observatory and look out yonder into space, in 
either direction to a star so far away, that light 
traveling constantly at this rapid rate, would require 
fifty years or more to reach this little earth, and yet 
looking in all directions we see but a wee small 
corner of the universe, and astronomers know, that 
away out beyond the stars we have looked at are 
mighty suns, so large that they could not pass 
between our earth and our sun. 

Can we doubt the astronomers? I think hardly, 
for they measure time, speed and distance so 
closely and accurately, that they can tell you to a 
minute when an eclipse will occur, or a comet 
appear, that has gone out beyond the reach of their 
mighty telescopes, even though many times they 
are gone for many years. 

Astronomers understand the natural laws govern- 
ing time, speed, distance etc, hence the remarkable 
accuracy with which they determine many things. 

Now I believe those who have followed me 
closely will see that the statements I have made, 
are based on established facts, or logical reasoning, 
which takes us away from the idea of special 
creation, and into the field of eternal existance, in 
other words, into the knowledge that all things, in 
some form were co-eternal with time and space. 

To me it seems to be a proven fact, and on such 
evidence we will rest our claim, that all things have 
always existed in some form. 

Now some might say, if this be true, it would 
preclude the idea of the continuity of life. How- 
ever, creation signifies a beginning and consequently 
an ending, while the continuity of life depends on the 
continued existance of the infinite principles of Life, 
Spirit, Consciousness and Intelligence, which subject 
I shall handle in a later lecture. 



144 

MICHIGAN PIONEER HOME 

The country was new, and with trees all around, 

O'er near all the country the forest was dense; 
And hardly a settler was there to be found, 

Who had cleared up a field or builded a fence. 
Way back in the forest so silent and lone, 

Each pioneer father was clearing a field: 
And building a house of the trees he cut down, 

So then they might see what the country would 
yield. 
And so one by one, the settlers came in, 

And each one brought with him, his rifle and ax; 
They builded them houses of logs hewn within, 

Roofed them over with shake, and chinked up 
the cracks. 
They plastered the chinking all over with mud, 

They split open logs and laid down for a floor, 
Their rifles supplied them with venison for food, 

For then deer, quite often came right to the door. 
Some had one small window, they seldom had more, 

Quite often their homes had no window at all, 
Without a partition, they used the first floor, 

For dining room, kitchen, for bedroom and hall. 
They generally had just a couple of doors, 
Wood hinges and latch, that was worked with a 

string, 
And o'er the front door two big holes they would 
bore, 

And drive in some pins, to form a gun sling. 
A fire place was built with a hearth of flat stone, 

With chimney outside, built of stone, sticks and 
mud; 
Inside in the pot on the crane, was a bone, 
Of venison or bear, they were cooking for food. 
On one side, some long pins were put in the wall, 

And boards laid upon them, a cupboard to make, 
Their boards were not sawed, but with froe, ax and 
maul, 



MICHIGAN PIONEER HOME 145 

They were split from the basswood, or oak, they 
were shake. 
And somewhere near by, two more pins were put 
up, 
To lay a shelf on for the old water pail, 
'Twas pins for their clothing, a pin for the cup, 
'Twas pins all around, for they had not a nail. 
Their bedsteads they builded by boring in floor, 
And put in some crotches about two feet high, 
And then some more holes in the wall they would 
bore, 
And put in some poles, in the crotches to lie. 
Then over this frame work, some brush they would 
lay 
For springs, that they covered by common marsh 
hay, 
They rested there well, so I often heard said, 
And this was the best kind of pioneers bed. 
Their tables of puncheon were made, like the floor, 
The parts pinned together to make them more 
strong, 
Instead of turned legs were wood pins as before, 
Their tables were generally narrow and long. 
The stoop, as they called it, was a wide projection, 
That ran the whole length of the house on one 
side, 
And for winter's, wood was quite a protection, 
And when 'twas well filled, you would think them 
supplied. 
The men would work hard all day in the chopping. 
And when it was night they would come in so 
tired, 
But next day would go back, and so without 
stopping, 
They cleared their own farms for 'twas seldom 
they hired, 
The women spun yarn and did all their own 
weaving 
To make all the clothes that they then had to 
wear, 



146 MICHIGAN PIONEER HOME 

To say they worked hard, would not be deceiving, 

Such great inconveniences, they had to bear. 
Their houses were rough, their furniture heavy, 

In those days, no stoves had been made for the 
cook, 
They baked in the kettle in which they made gravy, 

They taught all the children to read, from one 
book. 
They had no nice chairs, but the men made some 
stools, 

Of puncheon and pins, the material raw, 
The froe, ax, auger and maul were their tools, 

With sometimes a hammer and sometimes a saw. 
In good olden times, by history's first pages, 

They were happier then than we can be now, 
I think it would puzzle the saints and the sages, 

To tell us the reason, the why, and the how. 
So honest and upright, they tried to do right, 

And never attempted their neighbors to wrong 
And that was one reason their hearts were so light, 

Their conscience was clear, and that helped them 
along. 
But later came days of ague and fever, 

And Michigan gained for sickness much fame, 
111 and discouraged so many did leave her, 

But spite of all that, she gained a good name. 
When sickness or trouble came on a neighbor 

Though they were sometimes fully ten miles away 
They would go for assistance, giving their labor, 

Not stopping to think of dollars, for pay. 
Yes, that was their way, and I think it was right, 

They trusted each other, with never a doubt, 
If weary and hungry, you called in the night, 

You always would find the latch string left out. 



147 

THE GOD OF GENESIS OR INFIN- 
ITE INTELLIGENCE 

Written in the gear 1900 

When I first saw the Declaration of principles of 
the National Spiritual Association, I thought, is it 
possible that our glorious teachings of Spirit 
Communion and Continuity of life, has been handed 
over to the God of Genesis? 

I believe in intelligence as a principle in nature, 
which principle being boundless, unlimited, I would 
call Infinite, hence Infinite Intelligence. But I 
cannot accept Infinite Intelligence as set forth in 
N. S. A., declaration of principles which reads as 
follows (section 2.) "We believe that the phenom- 
ena of nature, physical and spiritual, are the ex- 
pression of Infinite Intelligence." 

As Spiritualists, do we believe that statement? Un- 
doubtedly some do, but certainly many do not. 
Hence I am writing this article, to make it as plain 
as I possibly can, how some of us look at it, and why, 
for we have our reasons why. 

Infinite means, boundless, unlimited, eternal; 
hence there certainly could be no Intelligence OUT- 
SIDE the infinite. 

Neither could there be any division into parts, else 
there could be no infinite, as neither one of two parts 
can be all ; but we cannot consider man's intelligence 
as being infinite. 

But it is said man's intelligence is within, and a 
part of the infinite. Very well, then we will say, 
as infinite means all, then man's intelligence is a 
part of the infinite. 

Then if there is Infinite Intelligence, it could not 
possibly be but one intelligence. 

It must cover the whole universe, it must have 
knowledge of all that ever has been, all that now is, 
and all that will be in the endless aeons of time yet 



148 GOD OF GENESIS OR INFINITE INTELLIGENCE 

to come, else it is not infinite. 

But, says some one, intelligence is not knowledge, 
but capacity to know. 

If infinite intelligence is the designer and creator 
of all things, which it must be, if all the phenomena 
of nature is but its expression, then it must have 
known what it was designing, it must have done all 
these things with knowledge of what it was doing, 
else the argument of design in nature, has no force. 

And, if it has produced all the phenomena of 
nature, we also must conclude that its power is 
infinite. And we infer that it must be a 
something, possessed of all power and all know- 
ledge. I do not wish to say an Infinite Intelligence, 
and as I am not a grammarian, I would ask, what 
word shall I put before that "Infinite Intelligence'' 
when referring to it; AN would signify that there 
might be more than one; THE Infinite Intelligence, 
would that be proper? It surely means only one, 
and it certainly can not mean less than one, a single 
individual one. Well let us see. The Infinite 
Intelligence, the one who by his knowledge and 
power has created all things, certainly must know 
what he has created. He, she, or it, must certainly 
know all that man knows, and like man he must be 
conscious that he is, conscious that he exists, and can 
say I am, else his knowledge or capacity for know- 
ledge, is less than that of man, and hence could not 
be infinite. 

SOLILOQUY 
I the conscious Infinite Intelligence am. 

I the conscious Infinite Intelligence, having infinite 
power, and knowledge of all that ever was, is now, 
or is to be, have created the universe, including 
birds, fishes, reptiles, insects and animals, all these 
have I endowed with the sense of pain, have made 
the teeth of ferocious animals to tear and lacerate 
quivering flesh, made them to kill and feed, one upon 
another, made them to suffer all the horrors of death 
from starvation and disease, which suffering has 



GOD OF GENESIS OR INFINITE INTELLIGENCE 149 

been upon all the billions upon billions of sensitive 
creatures, through all the ages of the untold past, 
and I the all wise and all powerful, allow it to 
continue, yes, and with a full knowledge that they 
should thus suffer, under the laws and conditions in 
which I have placed them. 

I have created good, and I have created evil, I 
have created man, as above the animals, in my own 
image created I him, in that, like me, he has 
intelligence. 

I have created conditions of happiness for man, 
also conditions of sickness, sorrow, misery, pain, all 
the ills that flesh is heir to, aye, more than this, for 
he must bear that soul sorrow, that mental anguish 
which is inseparable from his intelligence, under the 
conditions in which I have placed him. 

I know man will call me a fiend for creating all 
these myriad forms of living sentient creatures, 
subject to the conditions in which I have placed 
them. 

Man knows I have committed a greater wrong in 
creating him, subject to all this suffering and 
sorrow, than he could possibly have committed. 

Man's intelligence tells him that I would be more 
loving, and just if I would blot out every spark of 
ccnsciousness,rather than let it go on under my guid- 
ance with all this suffering, torture and starvation, 
this killing of honest patriotic Boers, who fight for 
their homes, their families and native land, this kill- 
ing of Filipinos because their skin is black or because 
they refuse to turn over their rights and freedom to 
foreigners, this killing in China because they desire 
a quiet life free from the discord and evils that 
come with those that believe on me. 

But I, the all wise and all powerful, have created 
them, I produce all the phenomena of nature, both 
physical and spiritual. 

I am, that I am, by my mighty arm will I do, that 
I will do, for mine is the knowledge, the power, and 
the glory for ever and ever, amen. 



PROSPERITY 

Oh say, what is prosperity, can anybody tell? 
And can we take its measurement, where bank 

accounts do swell? 
Or shall we find prosperity sent broadcast o'er the 

land 
In broad and fertile acres, and in homes that look so 

grand? 
Or shall we look to factory with smoke stack 

towering high, 
And sending forth its coal smoke, when the winds 

go whirling by? 
Or shall we find prosperity in Merchants profits 

rare, 
Or is it in the gold mine of the mountain regions 

bare? 
Or does the Lawyer win it when he makes ground- 
less plea 
Just for the cash, that's in it, from a crook of high 

degree ? 
Or is it with the Banker lord, who takes more than 

his share 
Of interest, on the money that you deposit there? 
I've looked the country over for prosperity today, 
But some way it evades me, for it always gets away. 
For he who gives a long life work, to hoarding 

wealth or gold 
Has really not been prosperous, when all the story's 

told, 
For no one seems contented in the factory, mill or 

store 
Or on the farm, or in the bank, or offices galore. 
Excuse me for a moment sir, there's one that I for- 
got, 
He lives down by the road side, in a humble little 

cot, 
He has a little garden there, and raises things to 

eat, 



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He has a flock of chickens too, and pigs, to furnish 

meat, 
A cow to furnish milk to use, and butter, some to 

sell, 
And that they all are happy there, most any one can 

tell, 
They have not sought for gold or wealth, that was 

not quite their rule, 
Their children are progressing, and they always go 

to school, 
They have true friends in plenty too, their love is 

true and strong 
Their children are two jewels bright, their hearts 

are filled with song, 
They have all common comforts, are, CONTENTED 

as you see 
And that, is the full meaning, of the word 

"prosperity." 



152 

OBJECTIVE am/ SUBJECTIVE MIND 

There has been much said in regard to the 
Subjective Mind, especially by the opponents of 
Spiritualism, claiming that the subjective mind is 
the source of all the communications received 
through our mediums. 

Yet I do not think they have ever, in a single 
case, proven that any message has ever b°en given 
by the subjective mind in the form of words spoken 
in any language. 

Professor Hudson, in his book on psychic science, 
sets up the hypothesis, that "all Spirit communi- 
cations could be accounted for, as the work of the 
subjective mind," but he failed to produce the evi- 
dence to prove it true. 

Yet the world at large has taken this unproved 
hypothesis, as being true, and with that as a basis, 
has brought all kinds of arguments to bear 
against Spiritualism. 

However Hudson himself says, (Page 21 Psychic 
Science) "The most that can be said of any 
scientific hypothesis is, that whether it is true in the 
abstract or not, every thing happens as if it were 
true, when this test of universality is applied. 
When no known fact remains that is not explained 
by it, the world is justified in assuming it to be true, 
and deducting from it, even the most momentous 
conclusions, if, on the other hand there is one fact, 
pertaining to the subject matter under consideration, 
which remains outside the domain of the 
hypothesis, or which is unexplained by it, it is 
indubitable evidence that the hypothesis is unsafe, 
untrue, and consequently worthless for all practical 
purposes of sound reasoning." 

Now this unproven hypothesis on which Mr. Hud- 
son has based his claims has sorely failed, since the 
scientists and thinkers among Spiritualists have 
found many communications from the spirit side of 



OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MIND 153 

life, that could not possibly be accounted for in 
that way, or in any other way except by the fact of 
Spirit communion. 

A simple example. 

After an evening meeting- when on the way home 
a lady and gentleman were walking just ahead of 
my wife and myself, when the Indian guide of the 
lady came to her and said, "I see a shiner" which 
is the word often used meaning money. The lady 
while under control of the Indian guide, kept 
talking about it while we were walking twenty rods 
or more. I asked "is it a big shiner or a little one?" 
the reply was "not big, not little, we get it pretty 
quick" Suddenly the lady stopped and speaking to 
her husband said" I see shiner down there, you get 
it," her husband said "I don't see any shiner, come 
on," the guide insisted on his getting the shiner, 
but when he would not, the lady stooped over and 
picked up a halfdollar from under the dust in the 
road. 

Now some one had lost that half dollar and no one 
knew where it was lost, no objective or subjective 
mind could have told the medium where it was, for 
absolutely no one ever knew. The Indian guide 
had found it where it was covered from sight by the 
dust of the road we were crossing, there was no 
reading of any one's mind to find it, the only 
reasonable way to account for finding it, is by 
Spirit communion. This lady was not a pro- 
fessional medium, yet often gave communications 
that were truthful and reliable. 

Second example. 

During the Civil war a political speaker stopped 
over nieht with a man whom we will call Mr. Johns, 
of Volinia Township, Cass County, Mich. 

In the morniner before going away he gave to Mr. 
Johns a very old coin, which Mr. Johns placed in 
a clock as a keepsake. 

One spring morning three or four years later, a 
little grandson asked for something to play with, 



154 OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MIND 

and was given this old coin, which he called a penny. 
It was garden making time, and after a few minutes, 
fearing he might lose the coin, they asked him where 
it was, and he said he had planted it, and tried to 
show them where he had planted it. The older ones 
searched a long time for it but finally gave it up as 
lost. 

The little boy with his parents moved to northern 
Michigan and made for themselves a home there, 
the little boy passed away at about twelve years of 
age. 

About the year 1908, his mother came to Volinia 
to visit the old friends, and while there attended a 
seance with a medium by the name of E. Huff, who 
still lives in that vicinity, and does some wonderful 
work, (address Ed. Huff, Volinia, Mich.) 

The Spirit of the little Johns boy came and asked 
his mother if she remembered the time he planted 
the penny, she said she did, and considered this a 
wonderful test, as there was no one there who knew 
anything in regard to the incident except herself. 

A few minutes later the Indian guide said to Mrs. 
Johns "if you with others will go, I will find the 
penny for you," this was agreed to and they drove 
about two miles and were stopped by the Spirit 
Indian guide. About forty rods from the house, 
the horses were hitched and a circle was formed in 
the road, then they started for the place on foot, 
but one of the parties knowing a big savage dog 
was there, asked the Spirit guide "What will we do 
if the dog comes after u?" The Indian guide replied, 
don't be afraid of that, I will take care of the dog. 

A small bright light went before them, and when 
near the house it began to circle around over the 
ground and finally settled down, and the guide said 
"dig." 

At that time and place there was a heavy sod, but 
with a butcher knife, brought by one of the parties, 
thinking it might be needed, they soon cut the sod 
and dug down about six inches, when the guide 



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said "get it now". Then the mother reached down 
and at the very first grab, she said "I've got it, I've 
got it," and she held it in her hand with the dirt 
until they arrived at the home where the circle was 
held. They had found the same coin, the boy had 
planted there, over forty years before. 

Now whose subjective mind gave the information 
leading to the discovery of that coin, absolutely no 
one on earth knew its location,without some positive 
information how could the light locate it so 
accurately that a little hole cut through the sod was 
in exactly the proper place to secure the coin.? 

The Dog did not bother them. 

How about the light that goes ahead of this 
medium and points out the location of different 
things, as in this case.? 

Prof. Hudson's hypothesis does not account for it, 
nothing accounts for it but Spirit power; Spirit 
communion. 

If there is any other way to account for it, let the 
real evidence be produced, for we want the truth, 
the facts, not simply faith or fiction. 

What do we know about the subjective mind? 

First, we know its action seems to be, at least, 
largely automatic and that it is not governed to any 
considerable extent, by our objective mind. How- 
ever we do admit that a spoken suggestion may, or 
may not be, accepted and acted upon by it. 

Second, we know it controls the entire laboratory 
of the physical structure that it acts in an un- 
conscious manner. It largely controls our breath- 
ing, yet our breathing is subject to change by our 
conscious thought, that is, we may take a long, 
deep, full breath, or a short one at will. 

We should all endeavor to breath more full and 
deep, for usually we do not get as much oxygen to 
our lungs, as we should in order to bum the food we 
eat into blood or building materials, with which to 
rebuild the parts of the body that have been torn 
down by illness or by work. Many times we need 



156 OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MINDS 

more air, more oxygen, to make us strong and 
healthy. 

Now we might ask the subconscious mind to do 
this deep breathing for us, but the chances are, that 
the subconscious mind would not act on the spoken 
suggestion, but if we will practice deep breathing 
for a few moments three or four times each day, 
the subjective mind will usually act on that kind of 
a suggestion. It will seem to see, as it were, the 
need or demand for more breathing capacity, and 
will usually get to work quite promptly to prepare 
for it, or provide it, by causing the lung cells to 
expand, or fill, to a greater extent. 

Third, we know that our subconscious mind has builded our 
bodies from the very first. We knozu the brain was builded by 
the subconscious mind, and that the body was not builded by the 
brain. 

It is a well known fact among those who have 
read and studied along the line, that some of our 
great Scientists, Physicians and Psychologists have 
determined beyond a question of doubt, that there 
are certain parts of the brain which are independent 
and separate from that part of the brain through 
which our conscious thoughts flow, and our reason- 
ing minds act on the physical structure. 

For instance, we are not able thoughtfully to con- 
trol the beating of the heart, or the action of the liver 
or many other similar activities of the physical 
structure. 

Then again, we do find that in ordinary breath- 
ing, we do not think of nor control it, yet by thought 
we can take a long, deep breath or a quick, short 
one, just as we will, to do. 

So that part of the brain that governs the breath- 
ing, seems to be as it were, on the border line be- 
tween the conscious and subconscious mind, and can 
be acted upon by either part of our mentality. 

Scientists have found that by severing the nerve 
leading from a certain part or point in the brain to 



OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MIND 157 

the heart, the heart ceases to act. The same can be 
said of the liver and other organs, but these we do 
not control by our thoughts. 

To sever the nerves that connect the brain to the 
vocal organs, or from the brain to the various 
muscles that we control at will, and we can no 
longer control them. 

It seems that scientists can only follow the cause 
of the action of the physical body, back to the brain, 
that is, only as far as the material contact can be 
traced, hence they claim that the brain not only 
controls the entire physical structure, but that the 
brain is the source of thought. They fail to find 
any cause for, or originator of thought, outside or 
back of the brain. 

Herein comes the great something, which we call 
Life and Spirit, which together with Consciousness 
and Intelligence constitutes our conscious, thinking, 
reasoning mind, also that part of the mind which con- 
trols the laboratory of the physical structure in an 
unconscious manner. 

The Scientists do not find the connection between 
the brain and the life principle, the spirit, neither, 
can they connect it with the conscious living entity 
that can say I think, therefore I am. 

They fail to find that the life and Spirit principle 
in man has builded the brain and body, even as the 
life principle in the grain of wheat. The germ 
contains within itself, not only the life principle; 
but enfolded in it is the entire form, principle, the 
Spirit as it were, of the full grown and ripened 
wheat. 

We know that if the life of that germ be destroy- 
ed, it will not grow, and we also know that if it were 
not for that form, or Spirit principle, if it did grow, 
there would be no certainty as to what the plant 
might be. We know this because there are millions 
of seeds of various kinds, and if they grow the form 
principle causes them to produce, or build upon 



T58 OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MINDS 

that form principle, or spirit body, the entire 
structure of the matured plant, or animal, or the 
human structure. 

That spirit principle is what always determines the form, 
and nature of the animal, or the man. The spirit body exists 
prior to the material body, which it builds in the image of the 
spirit, the soul, the God within. So we find the brain is but a 
reflector of thought, and not its originator, the brain is builded 
by the priiiciples of life a?id spirit. 

Yes we find in every living thing, the two 
principles of life and spirit, which existed, prior to 
the thing itself. 

Yonder stands a large chestnut tree. Every 
spring for over fifty years, it blossomed profusely, 
and the hulls or burrs formed, sometimes exten- 
sively ; and one would think there would be bushels 
of ripened chestnuts in the fall, but there was not; 
now the question came up, why are there never any 
chestnuts on this tree, simply because that tree only 
contained the one principle which we will call the 
life principle; because the burrs formed and the 
chestnuts formed complete, only they were not filled 
with meat, for the reason that those blossoms had 
not received the great principle of Spirit; because 
there was not another tree for many miles around, 
from which the pollen from the other tree could 
reach the blossoms, whereby the two principles of 
Life and Spirit could combine to produce the com- 
plete nut. 

The life principle had done its part in forming 
the burrs and outward form of the nut, 
the real purpose of the growth of the burr, or husk, 
was to protect and preserve the meat, the spirit, 
together with the life principle, which the completed 
nut contains. 

However, several miles away, a gentleman plant- 
ed a small chestunt grove and when it had begun to 
bear fruit, then the old tree would occasionally 



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produce a very few perfect nuts; later a tree was 
planted near by, and when it had begun to blossom 
the old tree seemed to awaken to a new life, and in 
a very few years, it produced abundantly. 

This is evidence to me that the two principles of Life and 
Spirit, are always combined wherever life exists in a germ, a 
seed that will grow, and that it always exists prior to the com- 
pleted form, and is the real builder of that form. 

Now in the thinking, reasoning world, we find two 
other eternal principles are combined with life and 
spirit, namely the principles of Consciousness and 
Intelligence. Without consciousness, you are in- 
active, dead, you cannot sense pain from an injury, 
you cannot sense that you exist, while unconscious. 

When consciousness is combined with intelligence 
then you can do more than to sense pain ; you can 
then think, and will what you will do. 

Now these four principles are boundless, un- 
limited, so we call them infinite. Now do not con- 
fuse the meaning of the word "Infinite" with the 
meaning of the word "Divine" (which latter word 
means a personal God, that has power to create and 
rule over things) for Nature does not seem to teach 
that there is, or ever has been, such a divine creator 
and ruler. But what nature does teach is, that all 
the infinite, eternal, unchangeable, principles of 
nature, lead us onward and upward along the line 
of evolutionary progress, until we reach the soul of 
man, that can say I think, therefore I am. I can 
will what I will do. I can will what course I will 
pursue. I can will to live after the change called 
death, for in every part and principle I am eternal. 
I can will to be good or to be evil. 

Good is eternal, because it is in harmony with' the infinite 
principles of nature, being in harmony with these principles is 
what makes it good. 

Evil or wrong is not eternal, because it is not in 



160 OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MINDS 

harmony with the infinite principles of nature, and 
that is the reason why it is wrong or evil, and so it 
is. the truth shall make you free, for truth is always 
in harmony with nature. 

You desire to live after the change called death, 
you can live after the change called death, because 
you are a living soul, which consists of the eternal 
principles of nature, and which soul is the only thing 
that can of itself set energy in action to do that 
which it wills to do. 

All animal life is conscious and intelligent to some 
degree, and desires to live. It can will what it will 
do. It wills to continue its life as a spirit, free 
from the ills and corruptions of the flesh, which will 
power, is always in proportion to its conscious 
intelligence,which in itself is the power to will. 

The soul can will strength and health to the body, 
but it cannot entirely overcome the disintegration 
of the unthinking material substance of which, the 
body is composed, but by its Conscious Intelligence, 
it can will the Subconscious Life principle, the Sub- 
conscious mind to act in harmony with the prin- 
ciples of nature, to restore, sustain, strengthen and 
give health, and thus continue the earth life much 
beyond the present limit. Thus the soul, the God 
within, is the great healer. When once we learn 
to use subconscious mind in the proper way, by 
understanding its action, then medicines will largely 
disappear, for medicines never heal, they may over- 
come or neutralize a poison in the system, but 
nature, by and through the soul forces, in other 
words, by the action of the subconscious self re- 
builds the weakened or torn down parts of the body 
in every case of healing. 

So we see the brain is but a reflector, reflecting 
thought waves from your conscious soul, to my 
conscious soul, and from my soul to your soul. 

The brain grows or expands in a manner similar 
to other parts of the body. When the objective 



OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MINDS 161 

mind acts on any one line of thought for considerable 
time, that part of the brain that is reflecting that 
line of thought, grows stronger, and the unused 
part of the brain grows weaker, probably not 
larger or smaller in bulk, but more active, stronger, 
or slower and weaker, as the case may be. 

To illustrate, if you carry your arm in a sling, 
although it is perfectly well, you will find at the end 
of sixty days, the muscles have become reduced, 
and the arm has become weak. 

On the other hand, if you exercise your arms 
giving them extra work to do, they grow stronger. 
Notice the prize fighter after training, or the black- 
smith who handles the heavy hammer. 

The exercise of the brain has practically the same 
effect on itself as the action of the arm does. 
Exercise of the body strengthens it, and with a 
liberal and broad full action of the brain and body 
health is better, and the earth life undoubtedly 
extended. 

But we find today, there are many people who 
use the objective mind but little, do but little think- 
ing, except possibly along the line of money getting, 
or how they can best beat their neighbors; and 
their brain is dwarfed in other directions, and this 
is undoubtedly the cause of much crime, legal steal- 
ing (called sharp practice) which has made many 
millionaires at the expense of the hard working 
common people. Then among the common people 
we find those who would follow the example of the 
legal highwayman, but being unable to do so, they 
brood over such things until they are ready and 
willing to risk the chances of the illegal highway- 
man; hence the present great crime wave. 

Now this subconscious mind carries on the entire 
process of carrying out of the system, those 
particles of the physical structure, that have been 
torn down by sickness, work, or other action of any 



162 OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MIND 

kind, and we must remember that every action, 
motion, or thought, tears down and destroys some 
part of the structure. 

This same subconscious mind, also has full control 
of the laboratory in which the foods we eat are 
prepared for use in rebuilding the parts torn down ; 
as well as sending them to, and placing them 
properly, where needed to build new, or to rebuild, 
where parts have been torn down. IT IS THE REAL 
HEALER IN NATURE, if you could ask it to heal 
you when ill, many times it could do so. 

There are three ways in which help has often 
been received, the first, based on the Materialistic 
belief that the brain is the source of thought, you 
may when retiring and in the best possible position 
for rest, repeat, "I can be well, I can be strong, 
successful and happy," repeating, or thinking it 
until you fall asleep. This, frequently, reaches the 
subconscious mind, and sets it in action to heal. 

Second, knowing that there are Spirit friends 
around and about us, talk to them as if you were 
talking to a friend or physician in earth life, and 
ask them to come and help you to overcome or 
remove your trouble while you sleep. This we know 
from actual experience has done some wonderful 
work when continued every night for a time. 

Third, when a healing medium, by the assistance 
of his guides locates the pain or disease, and by his 
magnetic power, changes the magnetic condition of 
the patient, thereby giving him some extra strength, 
and giving directions to the conscious and sub- 
conscious mind, by strong suggestions, asking for, 
or even commanding health, and strength; then it 
frequently occurs that relief comes quickly and 
permanently. This I positively know from actual 
experience in healing. 

Your subconscious mind will do this without ask- 
ing your conscious or objective mind a single 



OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MIND 163 

question. Not one. 

However, it will remind you that you need food 
from time to time, not by speaking to you, but by a 
sense of hunger, or sometimes, by an intense desire 
or craving for some special food, or special material, 
which is needed to rebuild some part of the body, 
which materials are not found in the regular food 
being eaten. 

Example, A brother-in-law of mine, after several 
days of illness came to my home. The doctor 
guessed at the trouble and said "it was billious in- 
termittent fever, and was liable to become typhoid 
and gave medicines accordingly. However the 
patient constantly begged for a chunk of dried beef 
to gnaw. The doctor said "It would surely kill 
him if he should have it" but at the end of three 
days he was no better, and my wife got the chunk 
of beef for him, with the understanding that no one 
should know — the next morning the Doctor opened 
the door and looked in as he was gnawing at the 
beef, and said "Well you got it did you?" the reply 
was "Yes I did and probably I would have been 
dead before this if I had not gotten it. " Well, in 
three days from that time he went back to his work 
running a threshing machine. 

Now you see that the intense craving for that 
special food was so strong that the Objective mind 
demanded it. 

Another case that came under my own observa- 
tion. A party about my age, 24 years at that time, 
was very ill, and begged for milk. The doctors 
said it would kill him sure if given him, but after a 
long time his friends called in an old doctor, that the 
other doctors called an old fogy, and the very first 
word of the patient was, "Can I have some milk" the 
old doctor said "sure you can, but not much at first 
because you are in a condition that you could not 
take much," The doctor began giving milk at first a 



i64 OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MINDS 

teaspoonful every ten minutes for two hours then a 
tablespoonful, and after a time increased the amount 
until at the end of three days, he gave him a half 
glass every hour, and a little later all he cared for 
whenever he wanted it, and THIS WAS ALL THE 
MEDICINE HE GAVE. The patient although 
very low, recovered and the last I knew, was a 
strong and ablebodied man, although he must be 
over seventy years of age. 

If something drops on your toe, your subjective 
mind does not talk to you about it, but at once, what 
we might call the internal telephone system informs 
the brain; which information is at once transmitted 
by your subconscious self to you, the conscious soul. 
No time for words, the subconscious mind acts before 
you have the least inkling of the accident, but your 
conscious mind as quickly orders your muscles to 
remove that toe to a place of safety. 

Now this subjective mind that keeps your body 
and brain in working order, which we have called 
the life principle, fills its full earthly mission, so long 
as it keeps them in order, so that messages received 
by the physical senses are transmitted through the 
brain and sensorum to you, the living conscious 
entity. And so you can send messages through 
your brain causing your body to act, or your vocal 
organs to speak, thus, it enables you, the conscious 
entity, that stands as it were, outside your physical 
structure, to hold communion with others in earth 
life. It also enables you to do any work the body 
can accomplish. So you see the living conscious 
entity, that can say "I think, therefore I am," is not 
of the body, but of the soul, and what is called 
death, is not death,but freedom from the home of 
clay. 

This simply means that the subconscious self has 
ceased to keep the body in working order, con- 
sequently the thinking, reasoning, conscious entity, 
the soul, you, individually, can no longer manifest 



OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MIND 165 

through it. 

But the soul, which stands as it were, outside the 
body, and which is the storehouse of memory, and 
the source of thought, such as it has been able to 
transmit through the brain and body, when the 
body was in working order, still lives, thinks, 
reasons and knows, and is conscious of its existance 
after the subconscious self has ceased to keep the 
body and brain in working order. 

Page 30, Psychic Science, Hudson says "The 
Subjective mind appears to be a separate and 
distinct entity, and the real difference between the 
two minds seems to consist in the fact, that the 
objective mind, is merely the functioning of the 
physical brain, while the subjective mind is a dis- 
tinct entity, possessing independent powers and 
functions, having a mental organization of its own 
and being capable of sustaining an existance in- 
dependent of the body." 

This indicates that Hudson considers the objective 
mind as only being a thing of the present brain and 
body and consequently subject to bodily conditions, 
subject to being torn down and rebuilded as the 
body is, and subject to ending its existance when the 
body ceases, or becomes inanimate, which I cannot 
accept for various reasons. 

I would say, the objective mind is the storehouse of memory, 
for the things we are conscious of, are the things we remember. 
We do not remember the workings of the subconscious mind, the 
things we are not conscious of, hence the objective mind must be 
the storehouse of memory. 

If you are unconscious, you are practically dead, 
so far as you know, while unconscious. 

In a general sense, all there is of us is our con- 
sciousness. If we are not conscious after the change 
called death, then we are dead, so far as all our 
earth life is concerned, and do not remember our 
loved ones. 



166 OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE MINDS 

From the (so called) infallible book we have the 
statement that "no woman has got a soul." Now I 
wish to go just one step farther than that, "no man, 
has got a soul" What do I mean? Simply this, every 
man, woman and child in earth life, is, a conscious, 
living entity, a soul, and they each one have a 
physical body. 

Yes the soul, is you, that which can say I think 
therefore I am. The body is not you, it is just the 
house you are living in, and the subconscious mind 
is simply taking care of the house for you. Now 
scientists tell us that the human body is torn down 
and rebuilded, as often as once in every seven years, 
and all but some of the harder bone structure, as 
often as once in every three years, so the brain of a 
man of my age, must have been torn down twenty 
times or more. Now we ask them, do the dead talk? Do the 
brain cells tell to the new incoming brain cells all that has hap- 
pened during the last seventy odd years and during twenty or 
more changes? I think not, for the soul that stands back of the 
brain is not a part of the physical structure, but is of the spirit 
and is not torn down as is the body. 

IT IS THE STOREHOUSE OF MEMORY. IT 
KNOWS, REMEMBERS, REASONS, IS CONSCIOUS 
AND THINKS, CAN WILL, CAN ACT. Conscious- 
ness, Intelligence, Life and Spirit are principles 
inherent in nature and co-eternal with time and 
space. 

The individual, the you, consists of these four 
infinite, eternal, unchangeable principles which we 
term the soul. That we live a conscious life we 
know. These princples are not of the body, but 
govern it, WHY SHOULD THEY NOT CONTINUE 
TO LIVE AFTER THEY HAVE LAID ASIDE THE 
MATERIAL BODY. OUR ANSWER IS A 
POSITIVE— THEY DO. 



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ONLY SEVENTY ONE 



I woke up one morning in Eighteen forty nine, 
March twentieth too, and the weather, was fine, 

I squalled and I squalled, as some children oft' do. 
At least that's the record that comes to my view. 

But now all that squalling is over and done 
But today, I am only just seventy one, 

I am only a child and just going to school, 
I'm trying to live to the good golden rule. 

I'm trying to learn just the best that I can, 

For some time I wish to be called a good man, 

I know that much study will have to be done, 
But today, I am only just seventy one. 

In sowing wild oats I was careful and shy, 

I mixed right in with them some wheat and some 
rye, 

And while the whole crop was exceedingly small, 
I wished that I never had sown them at all, 

It may come all right, when the threshing is done, 
But today, I am only just seventy one. 

I then started out just to try for the prize, 
By building a shop and then buying supplies, 

I worked with a will and with all of my might, 
I tried to be honest and treat people right, 

I did all repairing, from Saw Mill, to Gun, 
And today, I am only just seventy one. 

I started a store, and sold hardware and guns, 
Farm implements too, and of iron many tons, 

I builded a home, just for me and my wife, 
Expected to live there the rest of my life, 

But then came a panic, my business was done 
But today, I am only just seventy one. 



168 ONLY SEVENTY ONE 

We started again, and bought every thing new, 
With one little girl, and then later 'twas two 

I worked then at wood work, the best I could do 
At iron work and tin work and gunsmithing too 

The pay was so light when the weeks work was 
done, 
Yet we lived, and I'm only just seventy one. 

I built a machine shop and foundry its true, 

Built Forges and Grinders, and Gas Engines too, 

We fin'ly decided that we better sell 

For health was uncertain, we knew very well, 

We tried very hard, but it could not be done 
But today, I am only just seventy one. 

My wife was so earnest, so candid and true, 

Her voice was like music, it always seemed new, 

I loved her with love that was holy and high 
A love that still holds me, it never can die. 

But four years have passed since the day she passed 
on, 
But today, I am only just seventy one. 

What work lies before me I hardly can say, 

The Mental seems striving to gain right of way, 

To write and to print, so that others may know, 
The thoughts, that I thought, on my journey 
below, 

The writing and printing may never be done, 
For today, you will know, I am seventy one. 

My work, if unpublished my thoughts will be lost, 
There's no way of telling the labor they cost, 

There's no way of telling the good they might do, 
The thoughts I have written the world will find 
true, 

And some how, or some way, I trust 'twill be done. 
Although as you know, I am seventy one. 



ONLY SEVENTY ONE 169 

I truly can say that my conscience is clear, 

I have knowingly wronged no one living here, 

And when I pass over the bright shining tide 
And meet all the loved ones beyond the divide, 

My joy will be great, when life's journey is done, 
E'en though I be older, than seventy one. 




No Soul Shut Out of Heaven 

I am out in the forest alone today, 

Away from all turmoil and strife, 
I am trying to hear what the angels say, 

Regarding an eternal life. 
I'm trying to learn of the angels today, 

If really there be any sin, 
That will close up the gates just over the way, 

And not let a weary one in. 
And I find it's not so for there is no law, 

That nature's great God has given, 
That is quite so narrow, so weak, or so low, 
As to shut any soul out of heaven. 
For none are denied an inheritance there, 

In that beautiful home above, 
Where each shall receive what he shall prepare 

Of sunshine, of joy, and of love. 



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THE GREAT FICTION 

A LECTURE 

Feeling that thinking and reasoning people every 
where, would wish real knowledge, tne truth, re- 
garding this life, and the future state of existence, 
I shall talk to you this evening, presenting my views, 
with some statements and facts on which they are 
based, for the careful consideration of those who 
may be seeking the truth, that always makes for 
freedom and knowledge. If I am wrong in my 
conclusions, I would most sincerely ask for tne facts, 
the real truth, to set me free. 

From the story of the fall of man, through the 
whole plan of vicarious atonement and redemption, 
to the joys of heaven, or punishment in an eternal 
hell ; I consider as the greatest fiction the world has 
ever known. 

It has directly and indirectly, deceived more men 
and women, led more people away from the course 
of true knowledge, true life and advancement, than 
any other written work among so called Christian 
nations, without a single exception. 

It has caused more sorrow and suffering, more 
war and bloodshed, more torture by fire and rack, 
more broken hearts, more brutal murders, than all 
other written fiction combined . And Statistics 
show that during the Crusades three million people 
lost their lives in a foolish and futile attempt to 
rescue an empty tomb from the Mussulmen. Ten 
million heretics were slain by the church during the 
so called Spanish Inquisition, fourteen million men 
were slain in Chritsian wars during the 19th 
century, and before one fifth of the twentieth 
century had passed into history, thirty million 
people had died as a direct result of wars pro- 
secuted by Christian nations. 

Not but there are many good things in the Bible, 
for it was essential, to fill into the story, many good 



THE GREAT FICTION 171 

things, in order to carry through the great feature, 
for the benefit of the priesthood, that they might 
profit thereby. 

Starting with a claimed history of creation, by a 
great personal God, all of which nature itself 
brands as absolutely false. 

Now if there is anything that makes a man above 
a brute it is his conscious, thinking, reasoning entity, 
his soul. So I am going to ask you to think, reason, 
study, and get out of the rut of the ages, up into the 
broad highway of truth, right, and knowledge, 
I ask you for the time being, to lay aside your pre- 
judices, your belief in faith and fiction, and stand 
on your own good judgment, based on historical 
facts, and the phenomena of nature, which no man 
can successfully deny. In other words be a free 
man, for the few minutes I shall detain you. 

If you do not know the source of the Bible, and 
do not wish to be led astray, then read the Bible, 
read the history of the council of Nice, showing how 
Constantine established the teaching of the trinity, 
three hundred and twenty five years after Christ. 
Then read up about the council of Trent, where for 
eighteen years the monks and priests, were reading 
and voting on the so called "sacred writings," to 
decide whether they should be accepted as God's 
infallible word, or whether they should be cast out 
and burned. 

The work of the council of Trent was finished and 
approved on the 10th. day of January, 1564, only 
358 years ago, this being the year 1922, and it was 
only approximately 5565 years after the claimed 
creation of the universe. 

I tell you, friends, you do not read the Bible, but 
you say, "Oh! yes I do." Well if you do, you do 
not read and connect it up to get the meaning of the 
story, or perhaps you only read it in sections, pick- 
ing out that which suits you, and you do not get the 
story as it really is, or, perhaps you swallow it 



172 THE GREAT FICTION 

whole and do not stop to think and reason, and so 
fail to get its meaning. 

Possibly you simply accept what Bob Jones, or 
Billy Sunday says. But if you read, think and 
reason, you will see that the story of the fall of man 
and vicarious atonement, is far from being the work 
of an all wise, loving truthful and merciful God. 
Do you like chicken? I do, but I want it properly 
prepared, I do not want it cooked head, meat, feet 
and feathers; if cooked whole, I would prefer to 
dine elsewhere. 

So it is when I read the Bible, and use my con- 
scious, thinking reasoning power, with which I am 
endowed by nature, the giver of all good; then the 
Bible story becomes a sickening dope, worse if 
possible than the whole chicken, to accept it would 
be to ignore my own intellect, my own judgment. 

Referring again to the council of Trent. All of 
the books that were read and voted upon, were 
written by men of the long ago, ignorant past, and 
the Monks and Priests who voted upon them, were 
wise men of their day perhaps, when probably not 
one man in a thousand or more, could either read or 
write. 

These men voted on these writings, to decide 
whether they should be accepted as God's infallible 
word or not. A portion, less than one third were 
accepted by a majority vote as being infallible, much 
over one third were cast out and destroyed, the 
balance were undecided, there being a tie vote. 
Now be careful, use your best judgment, and tell 
me, did the vote of those monks and priests make 
some of these writings infallible, and doom others to 
destruction? 

If they were written by an all wise God, then 
what right had poor ignorant men to destroy any 
part of them? 

What right has man to interfere with God's work 
or word. 

If as some would say, God controlled the votes of 



THE GREAT FICTION 173 

the council, then did he not know whether some of 
those books were his infallible word or not; and 
because of the uncertainty did he allow a tie vote 
to be cast? 

Those Dooks were and are still undecided as to 
whether they are infallible or not; too bad indeed, if 
they are infallible and a part of God's instructions 
to guide men to everlasting happiness, that there 
should not have been one more ignorant Monk there, 
to vote favorably on them. 

These books were called the Apocryphal Bible, 
and were printed in some of the family Bibles of the 
KING JAMES TRANSLATION, AS CORRECTED 
AND REVISED ACCORDING TO THE STAND- 
ARD OF THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, and 
published at Troy, New York by Merriam Moore 
& Co., in the year 1850, of which I have a copy. 

Yes, God's word, was corrected and revised once 
more by man. 

The history of the council of Nice and the 
Apocryphal New Testament can be had from the 
liberal book stores, but the history of the council of 
Trent, a very large book, although compiled by the 
priests and monks, it told too much, and has been 
anathematized by the Catholics, and condemned by 
the protestants, and it is very hard to find. But 
very few large libraries have it, 

As I recollect the book, it was not less than one 
thousand pages, about seven by ten inches in a 
double column, closely set eight point type. 

Think of the fact that this council was held 
approximately 5565 years after the claimed date 
of the so called Creation, during much of which 
time, no written language was in use, and the story 
must have come down generation after generation, 
by word of mouth, to a date when writing was in- 
vented, and after that by hand writing until about 
the year 1457, after which time a little printing was 
done. But there was only a very little printing 
during the last hundred years prior to the ending of 



174 THE GREAT FICTION 

the council, which was held from the year 1545 to 
1564 inclusive, its work being completed only 358 
years ago. 

Now a few words about the creation. 

Get your Bible and read the first chapter of 
Genesis, and you will see that the first three days of 
the creation were used in getting the materials 
ready, separating the waters above the firmament 
from those below it, and dividing the light which he 
had made from the darkness, and making the 
grasses, herbs and trees to grow etc, ALL FOR THE 
BENEFIT OF THIS LITTLE EARTH,. 

On the fourth day "God created two great lights, 
the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser 
light to rule the night, HE MADE THE STARS 
ALSO, AND GOD SET THEM IN THE FIRMAMENT 
OF THE HEAVEN TO GIVE LIGHT UPON THE 
EARTH." 

Now stop, think and reason for just a moment. 

The earth was the largest thing the writer of that 
story knew anything about. He believed that the 
earth was flat, and the sun, moon and stars went 
around it every twenty four hours. He did not 
know the earth was round, and revolved on its axis. 
He did not know that shadow was what constituted 
the darkness of the night, and that the light was 
still shining. He did not know that the sun was 
many thousand times larger than the earth. He 
did not know that out yonder in space are suns, so 
large that they could not pass between our sun and 
our earth. 

He did not know that out beyond the reach of the 
naked eye there are countless millions of suns and 
planets, so far away that light traveling at the rate 
of 186,000 miles per second would require from 
fifty to a hundred or more years to reach this earth. 
He did not know that there are still suns and planets, 
out beyond the reach of our mighty telescopes. 
He did not know these things, or he would have 
written differently. 



THE GREAT FICTION 175 

He would not have claimed that all these mighty- 
suns and planets were made especially for the pur- 
pose of giving- light upon this little earth, he would 
not have claimed that they all went around the 
earth every twenty four hours, he would not have 
claimed the earth was flat. No indeed he would not. 

Ignorance and imagination, was the author of these writ- 
igns. 

The whole story looks too silly, for people to 
accept at this day and age, as coming from an 
infinite and allwise God, yet they do, in face of, and 
contrary to, the known established facts. 

The fifth day, God created the whale, and the 
living things of the water and the birds of the air. 

The sixth day, God created the animals and man, 
and this completed Creation, if the Bible is true, for 
the first verse of the second chapter says. "Thus the 
heavens and the earth were finished and all the 
hosts of them." 

Genesis II and 16-17th "And the Lord command- 
ed the man saying, of every tree of the garden thou 
mayest freely eat but of the tree of knowledge of 
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day 
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." 

Genesis III 4-5 verses "The serpent said unto 
the woman "ye shall not surely die, for God doth 
know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes 
shall be opened and ye shall be as god's knowing 
good and evil" same chapterand 22 verse. "And the 
Lord God said behold the man is become as one of 
us, to know good and evil," thereby sustaining what 
the serpent had told Eve. 

And so we have the story of creation and the 
of man so called. 

I have questioned over the matter to know who 
fell, God, Man, or the Devil. I don't know, I don't 
know. 

First, Man did not know good from evil, did not 
know he was doing wrong, and after eating the 



176 THE GREAT FICTION 

fruit, he had become as a God knowing good from 
evil, as God admitted. Now if God is allwise, that 
does not seem like much of a fall, does it? 

Second, the serpent told the truth as God admit- 
ted. Should the devil or anyone else be con- 
demned for telling the truth? 

Third, it seemed that God created something 
new, "a falsehood" when he said "the day thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" For God admit- 
ted that the serpent told the truth, again we know 
they did not die, the day they ate of the fruit, for 
God said unto Adam "cursed is the ground for thy 
sake, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of 
thy life," Then if the story of redemption be true, 
all mankind were to be punished for Adam's sin, 
unless they would repent etc. 

I will now refer to the second chapter of Genesis 
19-20th verses "And out of the ground the Lord 
God formed every beast of the field, and every 
foul of the air, and brought them unto Adam to 
see what Adam would call them, and WHAT SO 
EVER HE CALLED EVERY LIVING CREATURE, 
THAT WAS THE NAME THEREOF but, "For 
Adam there was not found an helpmeet for him." 

So, you see, this naming must have occurred on the 
sixth day for on the sixth day God created man in 
his own image, male and female created he them, 
and the creation was finished on the sixth day. 
Now Naturalists tell us that there are now, over 
365,000 species of animals, and very close to the 
same number of birds, and this number does not in- 
clude fishes, or insects which Adam was to name. 
So it would be safe to say there were at least 500,- 
000, for Adam to name that afternoon, and that 
does not include the prehistoric animals that 
Geologists tell us must have existed from five to 
fifteen million years ago. And all that naming to 
be done that day before God created woman, 
which seems to be the last of the six days work of 
creation. 



THE GREAT FICTION 177 

Now we must remember that at that time, 
ADAM HAD NOT HAD MUCH CHANCE FOR AN 
EDUCATION AS HE WAS NOT YET ONE DAY 
OLD, and the Bible does not even mention God's 
having made any standard language, so Adam had 
to invent the words, the names, for each animal and 
bird, not only that, he had to remember how they 
looked as well as to remember the name he had 
given to them, and there was no pencil or paper, 
and no short hand reporter, for Mrs. Adam had 
not yet been made. 

Now suppose you could invent the names, and 
memorize them and how the animals looked, at the 
rate of one every two minutes, and I guess it would 
keep you going some to do that, yet at that rate it 
would take one million minutes to name them all, 
or working twenty four hours per day, it would 
take you one year and eleven months, without a 
single stop for lunch. Or if you prefer to believe 
that this was done the afternoon of the sixth day, 
after God had created the animals and all creeping 
things, and before he had made Eve, you are at 
liberty to do so. As it seems that God did some 
things so exceedingly quick, we will suppose there 
was twenty hours in which Adam was to name the 
animals and birds, and to do it in that time he 
would have to name, 416 per minute. 

Now remember the naming of those animals, was 
not God's work, but Adam's work, and Adam was 
a man, according to the Bible, God's infallible book. 

Can you swallow it? be careful now, and answer 
these questions candidly, honestly, is that story 
true? is the Bible infallible? 

But when the animals were all named, for Adam 
there was not found an helpmeet, so God put Adam 
to sleep, and took out one of Adam's ribs, and of it 
made a woman. 

I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED IF HE HAD USED 
UP ALL THE GROUND MAKING THE ANIMAL 
AND MAN, so he had to take one of Adam's ribs 



178 THE GREAT FICTION 

from which to make a woman. Now since nothing 
is impossible with God I have wondered why God 
did not make the woman out of nothing, the same 
as he had made every thing else, or had he run out 
of nothing, had he used "nothing" all up. 

Then to, I have wondered how he took the rib 
out, did he dig through with his fingers, and tear it 
out? Or did he carry a dirk? I don't know, I never 
could tell. However, it seems to me it was pretty 
early in history to have started manufacturing 
cutlery. Now ask yourself, is'nt that whole story 
a whale? 

Yes, this woman making job, seems to be the last 
of God's work. 

Poor old Adam and Eve, not knowing good from 
evil, not knowing it was wrong, ate the forbidden 
fruit and were condemned, also all following 
generations of earth were condemned, by an allwise 
and all powerful and merciful God for that act, if 
the Bible is true. 

Yes that story, is the foundation on which is based 
the whole plan of vicarious atonement. It is the 
basis of all the Christian religions. 

According to the church teachings, we must all 
suffer eternal torment, unless we repent for Adam's 
sin and are baptized. This we feel is a priest made 
rule, especially designed, to benefit the priests, and 
keep the people in ignorance. 

What shall we do to be saved? Read, Study, use 
our "so called" God given principles of thought and 
reason, get away from the old dogmas, false teach- 
ings and idol worship of the past. 

The present God worship is but a relic of the 
past idol worship, and can be traced all the way 
from those who worshipped the thunders, the rocks, 
the fire, the serpent, the sun etc ; the present worship 
being of an invisible idol, credited with all power 
and knowledge, and being invisible, has held its 
power over the masses, longer than any other one 
form of idol worship. But it is doomed by 



THE GREAT FICTION 179 

education and science, for man is seeking the in- 
finite principles of nature and is constantly drawing 
nearer to solving the source of life, and it is already 
an established fact that, good will live, simply because it 
is in harmony with the infinite, eternal, unchangeable princi- 
ples of nature, and evil will die, because it is not in harmony 
with said principles, to say it in few words, good is always in 
harmony with natural law, while that which is not in harmony 
with natural law is always wrong or evil. 

One of our great thinkers said "Few men ever 
think and reason after they are forty five or fifty 
years of age unless they have practiced it during 
their earlier life, and kept it up." 

Many young men go to college and come home, 
knowing all that is to be known, and stop thinking 
and reasoning. When they do that, they are 
blighting themselves, and the reason why so much 
greater proportion of our really successful men, 
are not college graduates, is because, having little 
or no book education, they have had to think, and 
study on every subject they were called on to 
handle, consequently they went to the very founda- 
tion of every subject they took up. They could 
tell the cause, the reason why, for things, and con- 
sequently knew how best to handle every phaze of 
the subject while the college man had learned from 
books that certain things were so, but did not under- 
stand the underlying principles, the why it was so, 
yet the college man has every advantage if he will 
continue to think. Yes, thought and reason are 
our saviors, they are the base of all knowledge. 

We, the conscious living thinking entities, our 
souls, ourselves, not our bodies, are the things to 
be saved. 

Jesus said, "ye are God's, God is within you" the 
God within, is the only thing that can say, I think, 
therefore I am, the only thing that can will, what 
it will do; the only thing known to man that can 
of itself start energy in action, to think, to reason, 



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to know. 

Now to be saved and from what. 

Do you mean saved to live after the change called 
death? If so, do not worry about that, for you will 
continue to live in spite of yourself, or anything 
else, for spirit, life, consciousness and intelligence 
are principles eternal in nature, that cannot be 
destroyed, and every soul contains some good, and 
good is in harmony with nature, and will not die, 
while evil will gradually fade away. 

If you mean to be saved from the consequence 
of your own wrong doings, to make the most you 
can of yourself, then investigate, think, reason, and 
choose that which your own good judgment tells 
you is truth, is right and good, and you will save 
yourself many heart aches, and much sorrow. You 
will be kind and generous, you will have charity 
for the erring, will not only save yourself but will 
help to save others, and make the world better, for 
your having lived in it. The fellows that stop 
thinking and reasoning, and rely on the things of 
the past, and what the preachers say, will drift into 
a condition similar to what Josh Billings said. It was 
this, "I really believe it would be better for folks 
not to know anything, than to know so much that 
is not so," and that is what I am trying to get you 
to comprehend. 

We are conscious, thinking, entities, endowed 
by the Infinite, Eternal, Unchangeable, Omnipresent 
principles, inherent in nature, with the power to 
think, reason, progress, or by inaction to rust out 
as it were, and not keep up with the advancement 
of other eternal souls. We think, therefore we 
live, our own progression is our own savior, so let 
us not go down the scale by idleness, but let us 
think, reason, grow. 

GOD 
A relic of Idols of long ago past, 

But Oh! how much longer shall ignorance last, 
And shall we go backwards to darkness and night, 

Or reason and think, and seek nature's true light, 



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PUDDING, PIE and COOKIES 

Written at South Bend in March 1920, while recovering from 
the Flu, I was presented with pudding, pie and cookies by 
a Mrs. Koon, and I told her I would make a pudding for 
her, and this is the pudding. 

I tried to make that pudding, 

The best that I could do, 
Though I had all materials, 

Could not make it good as you. 

It's somewhat heavy, sticky, 

Will not melt in the mouth 
As the old persimmons do, 

That grow away down south. 

That pie was simply fine, 

So juicy nice and sweet, 
I do not hardly see just how 

It ever could be beat. 

If I could only make them 

So perfect, nice and fine, 
I think that I would name them, 

"That dandy pie O' mine." 

And then there came some cookies 

Like mother used to make, 
And when she got to baking 

It was no little bake. 

And some would say two dozen, 

And others might say four, 
But I would say a hundred, 

And sometimes may be more. 

And that great big stone jar, 

Would just be packed in tight, 
Before ma thought she had enough 

To last till Sunday night. 



i82 PUDDING, PIE AND COOKIES 

For I went out to spelling schools, 

And Lyceums at night, 
When I got home, and rather late, 

Four cookies fitted right, 

There were some little toddlers, 
Who walked two miles its true, 

And then walked home from school again 
As children used to do. 

And when 'twas cold of evenings, 
They stopped to warm their toes 

And that was all the 'scuse they had, 
That anybody knows. 

They did not seem to care for 
The fellow that looked like me. 

But seemed to watch ma working, 
Whatever her work might be. 

They sometimes stopped and waited, 
For more than half an hour, 

They knew just where that cooky jar, 
Was placed, before the war. 

When each one got a cooky, 
From out the big stone jar, 

He started on his journey 
It did not seem so far. 

And no one ever really knew 

The good those cookies have done, 

But just to make a warm place 
In the heart of every one. 

But kindness like the cookies 
That mother used to make, 

Will leave it's imprint somewhere, 
On times eternal wake. 



i8 3 

WHAT AM I? 

Man is surrounded everywhere, by the Vegetable 
and Animal kingdoms. 

Considering the many varieties of Plants, Shrubs, 
Trees, Insects, Fishes, Birds and Animals; Man 
seems to be the climax, the highest work of all 
nature. 

Plants and animals reproduce themselves each in 
their own regular line, showing there is something 
in nature, more than chance. Let us illustrate, 
referring to plant life. 

We find that every mature fertilized seed con- 
tains the life principle or it would not germinate 
and grow, Yet there is something more than life, in 
that seed, if it were not so, it might grow, but there 
would be no certainty as to what the growth might 
be. 

Under such conditions, if we plant a kernel of 
corn, it might grow to be a giant oak tree, or if we 
plant wheat, it might grow to be corn, oats, potatoes 
or cabbage. 

So we see at once, that in every fertile seed, there 
is something more than the life principle, even in 
the diminutive seed of the Poppy, there is a prin- 
ciple, or as it were, there is infolded within that 
minute seed, the full grown poppy with its 
beautiful silken petals, even of the tricolored type, 
thus proving that within that seed is the principle, 
governing the whole form and color of that 
special variety of poppy. What shall we call this 
principle? is it soul? I hardly think so, for con- 
venience we might call it the "form principle." 

These same principles apply to all the animal 
kingdom, but with the animal, there is something 
more; something which we call consciousness, as 
evidenced by the fact that horse or dog feels the 
whip or spur. They are also endowed with what we 
call intelligence, for they hear and understand; 



184 WHAT AM I? 

have capacity to know. 

Yet this is not all, we find there is something else 
with animals and men, something which men have 
called instinct, which is shown by the robin in 
building it's nest, by the homing pigeon finding it's 
home nest, also by the bees finding the hive, and 
forming the honey comb. 

Man seems to have but little of this quality, of 
instinct, but to what extent it could be developed 
under favorable conditions it is difficult to say, but 
with some animals it seems to be a sort of wisdom, 
by which they seem to know certain things without 
being taught ; something akin to intuition, by which 
some persons seem to know much regarding others, 
without being told in any way. 

With man, the principle of intelligence, seems to 
have overgrown the principle of instinct. 

However man is born endowed with the prin- 
ciples of life, form, instinct, consciousness, in- 
telligence. 

We readily recognize the Spirit, as being the 
principle which we have described as "form." 

Regarding the principle of instinct, I confess that 
it is little used, and so poorly demonstrated in man, 
that I cannot definitely trace its exact place or use. 

But consciousness, I trace back to mean, a know- 
ledge of life, knowledge of existance and capability, 
for without consciousness, we are practically dead. 

Intelligence, or capacity to know, is that prin- 
ciple in nature in which man excels all other known 
products of nature. 

So, broadly speaking, I would say the Soul, con- 
sists of life, spirit, consciousness and intelligence, 
hence every man will live after the change called 
death, for these principles are eternal, unchange- 
able and under these conditions they will go on, 
along the lines of eternal progress. He who gains 
the most of truth, human kindness and purest love, 
with charity for all, and lives it, will be the farthest 
advanced, will have the least of wrong and sin to 



WHAT AM I? 185 

outgrow and overcome. 

Certainly this tends towards greater happiness 
which we deem worth striving for, so let us think, 
reason and grow, let us ask ourselves the question, 
What am I? 

I am the objective mind. 

I am that which can say "I think, therefore I am." 

I am that which takes note of the incidents of life. 

I am the living soul, the conscious entity, the 
Lamb's Book of Life, on which is recorded all the 
incidents of my life, 

I am the Soul, not the brain. 

I am that which acts upon the brain, I originate 
and control the thoughts, that I send through the 
brain, causing the material body to act. 

I am the master or owner, of the body and brain, 
the house in which I live. 

I am not the house, the house is not I, you see me 
not, you only see the material house in which I live, 
the Spirit house you cannot see, except by the 
spiritual sight. 

The Subjective mind is my servant; who is keep- 
ing my material house in order, that I may live in it. 

The Subjective mind, sometimes receives thoughts 
from impressions I have left on the brain of the 
physical structure, when sending thoughts through 
it. 

When I am not in, or in contact with the physical 
body, it is unconscious, I am then only in the 
spiritual body, outside the material body, leaving 
the material body entirely in charge of the sub- 
conscious self. 

If by accident, or by over work, I give the sub- 
conscious self more than it can do, it will not do it 
well, and I the conscious self, cannot use the body 
or brain to the best advantage. 

If I eat indigestible food, the sub-conscious self 
cannot handle it successfully. 

If I eat more than is required, the sub-conscious 
self has extra work to do, to dispose of it, and it is 



i86 WHAT AM I? 

liable to clog the system, or cause stomach trouble, 
in other words, the battery, tjie laboratory of the 
bodily structure is over worked, and in such cases, 
fasting is better than feasting, as it relieves the 
over crowded condition, and the sub-conscious self, 
which has complete control of the entire laboratory 
of the system is then enabled to overcome the 
trouble and set the house to rights once more. 

Under the crowded condition, the nerves (which 
we refer to as electric wires to illustrate) are often 
short circuited or the contact broken, which results 
in a condition similar to that of paralysis or 
apoplexy. Where short circuit is perfect, or a 
contact completely broken, it is very difficult if not 
entirely impossible to correct it. 

And when the veins or arteries become clogged, 
or partially clogged, the subjective mind can no 
longer keep the different parts of the body acting 
properly for the particles torn down by any act or 
thought, become waste particles of matter that 
cannot be easily removed from the system under 
the clogged condition, neither can new particles be 
easily brought in to rebuild the parts torn down. 

It is a well known fact that every thought pass- 
ing through the brain, tears down some brain cells, 
which must be removed and replaced. 

If the sub-conscious mind cannot carry on this 
cleaning out and building up of the brain, on 
account of the clogging of the arteries or veins, or 
on account of the breaking or short circuiting of the 
nerves, then the brain cannot act properly. 

When the subjective mind fails to keep the body 
and brain in condition so the objective mind can 
send its messages through the brain, then the soul 
steps out and the body becomes unconscious, dead. 

However we are aware of the fact that the living 
soul consisting of the eternal principles of Life, 
Consciousness, Intelligence and Spirit, is the only 
thing that now is, or ever has been, known to man, 
that can of itself start energy in action and do that 



WHAT AM I? 187 

which it wills to do. 

The soul, the real man, the God within, while 
living in earth life, is living in the house we call the 
body, which body we may drop or cast aside, but 
the real man, the soul, never dies, for all the prin- 
ciples of which it is constituted are eternal in nature. 
They were without beginning and will be without 
ending. 

It is claimed by some, that the power to think 
and say I am, is only the result of brain action, and 
when the body and brain die, then the soul ceases to 
exists, but we must not forget that the brain does 
not build the soul, and the soul is not a part of the 
brain or body. 

We must remember that the body and brain, con- 
sist of many different material substances, that 
have been brought together by the sub-conscious 
mind, which is a part of, or servant of, the objective 
mind, the soul, thus building the body and brain as 
the home of the soul, while in earth life. Be sure 
to get this thought that the Spirit is always first, 
and builds the brain, and body, as shown by the 
spirit (form principle) in the poppy seed, and that 
the brain does not build the soul, and is not the 
originator of thought, neither is the brain the store- 
house of memory or knowledge, the brain is but the 
medium through which the soul acts, to manifest 
during earth life. 

Now we must remember, the body and brain are 
material substance, acting under the principles of 
nature, Natural law, hence the different sub- 
stances of which the body and brain are composed, 
will separate, disintegrate, destroying the form of 
the body, but remember this, the prime principles of 
material substance do not die, but each and every particle of 
material substance is true to nature and still exists; gold will 
still be gold. Each particle of matter will return to its original 
substance, to its prime principle, or be taken up by other life 
organizations; it does not die. 



188 WHAT AM I? 

Yes, we find the prime principles of nature are eternal and 
unchangeable. Now we find the prime principles of Conscious- 
ness, and Intelligence are not only eternal, but when in connec- 
tion with Life and Spirit they are inseparable; that is, con- 
sciousness cannot act without intelligence, neither can intelli- 
gence act withozit consciousness. 

Therefore we have the four great prime prin- 
ciples Life, Spirit, Consciousness and Intelligence, 
bound together in the soul, the highest and greatest 
of all nature's work, the climax of evolution, that 
which all nature seems to be striving to perfect, by 
and through the power of eternal progression ; then 
shall we say that the disintegration of the body, in 
passing to its prime principles, causes the death or sepa- 
ration of the four great prime principles that constitute the 
soul, that which seems to be the highest product of evolution, 
and capable of endless progress? 

Life and Spirit are prime principles eternal in 
nature, which seem to envelope the two principles 
of Consciousness and Intelligence, constituting the 
soul. 

In Spirit Manifestations such as, Etherealiz- 
ation, Transfiguration and Materialzation; the 
Spirit always appears with the form and features 
of the material body, but we know the Spirit was, 
prior to the material body, and governs its form, 
the Spirit being in reality the base upon which the 
material body is builded, even as the Spirit in the 
poppy seed is the principle upon which the poppy 
is builded. 

When from any cause the material body is no 
longer kept in working order, then the spirit body, 
together with the consciousness and intelligence, 
steps out from it into the broader and more perfect 
life conditions, still to progress, outgrowing and 
living above the evils and ills of earth life. 

Now I would ask, does the poppy seed, the 
kernel of corn, or the complete growth from them, 



WHAT AM I? 189 

contain a brain? No not so. 

They do not have Consciousness or Intelligence, 
which require a brain, or central station as it were, 
by and through which to control the whole physical 
structure, and also to transmit and receive thought 
vibrations, by which the soul may progress, advance, 
by the great processes of evolution. Such 
evolution is manifest everywhere, and is constantly 
going on, and always tending towards a higher and 
better condition, in everything. Yet the soul of 
man is the highest, the most advanced in the line of 
evolution of anything of which man has any know- 
ledge. 

Now since this is true, is it reasonable to suppose 
that evolution ceases with the death of the physical 
body? In other words, when it steps out of the 
physical structure, leaving it unconscious, and ready 
to disintegrate ? 

Now the Spirit of man, the soul, the God within, 
stands as it were, back of, or outside the brain. 
The body and brain do not build the living, thinking 
soul. The Spirit is always first, prior to the body 
and brain, and is that which always decides the 
form of the body and brain. 

The Spirit, is the real prime principle around, or 
upon which the body and brain are builded, and 
with the life principle, the evolution of the body 
is begun, and at some time during the evolution of 
the body, the Life and Spirit principles take on the 
prime principles of Consciousness and Intelligence, 
completing the living soul, which can say "I think, 
therefore I am. 

These principles are each and all eternal and 
will never die, they are not material substance like 
the body, the poppy seed, or grain of corn, consist- 
ing of the various kinds of material, substance 
which will disintegrate and separate, destroying 
their form; but the soul principles are eternal 
principles, like unto, Mathematics, Gravity, Energy 
etc, which govern and control all things within 



igo WHAT AM I? 

their special spheres. The soul containing the 
four principles make man capable of evolving 
thought, and advancing in knowledge, in other 
words, progressing towards a higher plane of under- 
standing, which does not originate in, or from 
material substance, but purely by and through the 
prime principles constituting the soul. When the 
soul steps out and away from the physical body, it 
can, and will, still know, think, reason, love and 
live. 



«^-^^l 



MAN IS FOR 

—From Confucius 
He who knows, and knows that he knows, he is wise, follow 

him. 
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, he is asleep, 

awake him. 
He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, he is a 

fool, shun him. 
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, he is a child, 

teach him. 



«^^e» 



They are not dead, but only gone before, 

And ever watch and wait at heavens open door, 

And will, until that blessed day shall come 

When we shall meet and they shall welcome 
home. 



I 9 I 
Our God is the Soul in the Man 

Oh! See those beautiful roses, 

That came to us in the night, 
With a pink carnation for mother, 

For grandmother, one of pure white. 

For grandmother passed o'er the river, 
And the years have flown swiftly by, 

And now she is waiting and watching, 
To welcome us there by and by. 

The flowers were all wrapped in oiled paper 
And placed in the box with such care, 

It tells us that love thoughts are dwelling 
In the hearts of the senders somewhere. 

Those flowers are so bright and so fragrant, 
And the fern leaves such beautiful green, 

They make for our souls a bright picture, 
A glimpse, of the home yet unseen. 

And then, away down in one corner 

Where partly hidden from view, 
We found a package of sweet meats, 

I think they would surely please you. 

And taking the package together, 

The brightest, the sweetest, the best. 

We glad would send back to the senders, 
The wish, they may ever be blest. 

We read from the red of the roses, 

Of a love that is holy and high, 
And from the green of the fern leaves, 

Of a life that never can die. 

We catch from the white carnation 

A purity thought, as we think, 
And see them all blended together, 

In the blossoms of beautiful pink. 



192 OUR GOD THE SOUL IN THE MAN 

Oh! whence came those beauties of nature, 
Let us try their secret to read. 

We find each blossom once hidden 
In a germ, the life in a seed. 

And there was decreed before planting, 

The rose or carnation to be, 
Enfolded so deep in that germ life 

That poor mortal eyes could not see, 

By Nature, the giver of all things, 
The God in the germ is the plan, 

And so has all nature recorded 
Our God, is the soul in the man. 



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INSPIRATION 

Many of my poems have been written at night, in total 
darkness. Sometimes the writing is good and plain, some- 
times it is poor and the lines cross making it difficult to read. 

I believe that the very best, are among those I have given 
in public from subjects given by the audience, these are very 
seldom repeated so I can write them, however a few have been. 

They are given in perfect harmony with what Jesus taught 
his Disciples (Matthew X. 19th.) "Take no thought how or 
what you shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same 
hour, what ye shall speak." 

When starting to give a poem I never know what will be the 
style of verse, or the rhyme following the line end. It is all 
purely inspirational, the whole story seeems to be given to 
me, two to four words in advance of the word spoken, while 
speaking I often think of other things, I often wonder what 
will be the rhyme, or what good thought will be woven into the 
poem or lecture. 



*93 

NOT DEAD 

BURIAL SERVICE AT THE GRAVE 

Not dead. He has only just stepped across the 
border land, away from earth's troubles, sickness 
and pain, into the great and beautiful beyond, there 
to meet his long lost, loved ones, and to welcome and 
greet those yet to come, and go with them adown the 
aisles of time, rejoicing in the high and holy love, 
in the true light of the great and perfect day, in his 
"home not made with hands" but with good deeds, 
kindly acts and thoughts, there to live through the 
endless ages, in the land of true freedom, higher 
knowledge, better understanding, that is, just be- 
yond the great divide. Oh soul ! Thou who hast gone 
from this form of clay, we ask you not to forget 
those of earth life, but come with sweet messages 
of love and comfort, teach us no longer to fear the 
future, but make us to know the truth that you live, 
and because you live we too shall live, beyond the 
great divide. 

And Oh ! ye souls of earth, awake, arise, and seek 
the light, the truth that shall make you free ; free 
from the dread and fear of the future life and an 
eternal punishment, and make you to rejoice in the 
knowledge that nature's great laws will give unto 
every soul, all the peace, joy and comfort, the 
highest and purest friendship and love, that their 
earthly life has prepared them to enjoy; which 
shall go with them adown the ages of endless pro- 
gress, in their great home, in the sweet by and by. 
INVOCATION 

Oh Soul; Thou who art the God within, awake, 
arise, and seek the light, the truth that shall make 
you free, free from the dogmas, false teachings and 
idol worship of the past. 

Seek a better understanding of what life is, here 
and hereafter, learn the fact that all phenomena 
both physical and Spiritual are but the expression 



194 NOT DEAD 

of nature. Learn that there is no miracle, no super- 
natural. Learn that truth is always in harmony 
with nature, and that only truth can make us free. 

And oh ye Spirit friends, come near unto us and 
help us to understand the wonderful teachings of 
nature, help us to understand the reality and beauty 
of spirit life, help us to live good and noble lives 
here, that we may be the better prepared to meet 
our lost, loved ones in the great and perfect day. 

Help us to overcome evil, to quiet the angry and 
the jealous, help us to comfort the sorrowing, heal 
the sick, assist the needy, and lift up and give new 
strength and courage to the downfallen, that the 
world may be a better place in which to live, that 
the light from the great beyond shall illumine the 
souls of men and women everywhere throughout 
the world. For the world is our country, until we 
step across the border land into the great and per- 
fect day, where peace and harmony, friendship and 
love abide ever more. 



195 

FINIS 

Now as you close these pages, 

Do not drop our thoughts for ages, 

But keep what e'er of truth you there can see, 
All prejudice rejecting, 

Your thoughts with care directing, 

For truth, and only truth, can make you free. 
Then heal thy soul of blindness, 
And ope thine eyes to kindness, 

And learn to love your brothers, every one. 
And by thy work expressing 
True goodness worth possessing 

'Till life's work here is well and nobly done. 
Then home in life eternal, 
In land of joy supernal, 

You will have builded beautiful and high, 
Your work will be a treasure 

To old earth, that none can measure, 

For goodness, kindness, truth, can never die. 
Now while the light is shining, 
Your days are fast declining, 

Oh strive to gain of knowledge all you can, 
And where a heart is throbbing 
Or a soul in sadness sobbing 

Send out your soul to aid them, every man. 
By scales of justice weighing, 

Each thought or word you'r saying, 

You'll read them on your record by and by, 
All wrong will be recorded, 
All right will be rewarded, 

On record of the soul that cannot die. 
I hope some time to meet you, 
In friendship true to greet you, 

As reader of the thoughts herein expressed, 
If this one heart has bettered, 
Or a single soul unfettered, 

We'll feel our efforts have been truly blessed. 



INDEX 

ILLUSTRATIONS 

FRONT PIECE, AUTHOR AND WIFE 

BIRTH PLACE OF AUTHOR OPPOSITE PAGE 144 



LECTURES AND ARTICLES 




Be Your Own Savior 


25 


Building a Home 


97 


Benediction 


113 


Creation or Evolution 


33 


Created or Always Existed 


131 


Fears Spiritualism too near the old time 




Religions 


41 


God of Genesis or Infinite Intelligence 


147 


Has the Religion of the past been a Sucess 


55 


Invocation 


64 


Invocation 


193 


If Created When 


77 


Jesus of Nazareth 


9 


Meduimship 


125 


Man is Four 


193 


Not Dead 


193 


Objective and Subjective Mind 


152 


Preface by the Author 


1 


Shaken in the Sieve of Reason 


71 


Thought Does Travel 


14 


The Universe Governed by Law Alone 


65 


The Truth Shall Make You Free 


86 


The World Does Move 


107 


Thoughts are not Things 


117 


The Great Fiction 


170 


What Ami? 


183 


POEMS 




A Mother's Voice 


52 


As Ever 


84 


After the Husking Bee 


114 


Climbing the Ladder of Life 


37 


Don't Go To War 'Till You Know What For 


62 


Fore Ordained 


23 


Finis 


195 



Hew to the Line 


8 


Home 


105 


Life 


76 


Music of the Spheres 


13 


Mediumship, Scientists and Science 


128 


Michigan Pioneer Home 


144 


Only Seventy One 


167 


Our God the Soul in the Man 


191 


Prosperity 


150 


Pudding-, Pie and Cookies 


181 


Right is Always Right 


70 


The Washing Machine 


30 


The Fall of Man 


94 


The Journey of Life 


124 


SHORT POEMS 




Friendship 


40 


Friend is a word that many speak 


63 


God 


180 


Hold me when the Shadows Lengthen 


51 


I Plowed my Last Furrow 


24 


I Learned 


69 


No Soul Shut Out of Heaven 


169 


Oh May Ye See As Angels Saw 


75 


Of all the Endless Universe 


85 


Prayer to the Goddess of Liberty 


106 


Spirit Presence 


127 


To a Friend 


123 


When the Lights Shine In. 


32 


When the Gates of Heaven Open 


61 


When the Truth is Really Spoken 


130 



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